On Monday 23 January 2006 5:37 pm, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:18:38PM +0200, P. Christeas wrote: > > On Monday 23 January 2006 5:05 pm, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > I'd appreciate if somebody with gcc 4.0.1 could test this kernel patch > > > below. > > > > > > Ralf > > > > Is that for 2.4? > > 2.4 is a no go for all architectures with gcc >= 4.0.0 and in case of MIPS > even gcc 3.4 is somewhat dubious. > > > 2.6 doesn't seem to have that problem.. > > It's probably a matter of configuration then. Basically with our current > uaccess.h and gcc >= 4.0.1 the attempt to pass a pointer to a const > variable as the pointer argument to get_user or __get_user will blow up. > It's always been a bug - but gcc before 4.0.1 were accepting this > silently. > > Ralf I 've been compiling with gcc 4.0.2 (my tree is Linus') and haven't seen any message like that. It all compiles fine. Is there a point in testing your patch as well?
