On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 20:53 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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. Yes, it's only required on LE. I'll have to defer to Alan on the details, but on BE we don't see those relocations against .TOC. and so none of this matters. cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html