On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 15:51 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 19:24 -0800, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling > > > > to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > powerpc-simplify-module-toc-handling.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > > > From c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Alan Modra <amodra@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:52:22 +1100 > > Subject: powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling > > > > From: Alan Modra <amodra@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > commit c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 upstream. > > Hi Greg, > > Please drop this commit, it requires a corresponding change to depmod which we > need to get accepted first. > > Sorry for the churn. Is that specifically for ppc64el? Module loading has been completely broken in powerpc 64-bit kernels in Debian unstable since we got binutils 2.26 and these two patches certainly fixed the big-endian case without any need for a new kmod. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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