Re: Patch "powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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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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