Re: [added to the 4.1 stable tree] powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling

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On 02/15/2016 12:58 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 10:10 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
>> From: Alan Modra <amodra@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any
>> objections, please let us know.
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> [ Upstream commit c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 ]
>>
>> PowerPC64 uses the symbol .TOC. much as other targets use
>> _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. It identifies the value of the GOT pointer (or in
> 
> 
> Please drop this commit, it requires a corresponding change to depmod which we
> need to get accepted first.

Dropped from both 4.1 and 3.18. Thanks!


Thanks,
Sasha

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