The patch titled FRV: Fix linkage problems has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was frv-fix-linkage-problems.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: FRV: Fix linkage problems From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Make it possible to use __start_notes and __stop_notes without getting a GPREL overflow error from the FRV linker. Small variables that would otherwise be in .data or .bss may, depending on the arch, be placed in special sections (.sdata or .sbss) that permit single instruction references on fixed instruction width machines. __start_notes and __stop_notes aren't really char variables, and certainly don't refer to data in .data or .bss. Making them type "void" fools the compiler into not assuming anything about them. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/ksysfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/ksysfs.c~frv-fix-linkage-problems kernel/ksysfs.c --- a/kernel/ksysfs.c~frv-fix-linkage-problems +++ a/kernel/ksysfs.c @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ KERNEL_ATTR_RO(kexec_crash_loaded); /* * Make /sys/kernel/notes give the raw contents of our kernel .notes section. */ -extern const char __start_notes __attribute__((weak)); -extern const char __stop_notes __attribute__((weak)); +extern const void __start_notes __attribute__((weak)); +extern const void __stop_notes __attribute__((weak)); #define notes_size (&__stop_notes - &__start_notes) static ssize_t notes_read(struct kobject *kobj, struct bin_attribute *bin_attr, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch nommu-vmalloc_32_user-vm_insert_page-and-symbol-exports.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html