This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
um: Remove copy&paste code from init.h
to the 3.18-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:
um-remove-copy-paste-code-from-init.h.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 30b11ee9ae23d78de66b9ae315880af17a64ba83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 22:15:58 +0200
Subject: um: Remove copy&paste code from init.h
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
commit 30b11ee9ae23d78de66b9ae315880af17a64ba83 upstream.
As we got rid of the __KERNEL__ abuse, we can directly
include linux/compiler.h now.
This also allows gcc 5 to build UML.
Reported-by: Hans-Werner Hilse <hwhilse@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bernie Innocenti <codewiz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/um/include/shared/init.h | 22 +---------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 21 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/um/include/shared/init.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/shared/init.h
@@ -40,28 +40,8 @@
typedef int (*initcall_t)(void);
typedef void (*exitcall_t)(void);
-#ifdef __UM_HOST__
-#ifndef __section
-# define __section(S) __attribute__ ((__section__(#S)))
-#endif
-
-#if __GNUC__ == 3
-
-#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 3
-# define __used __attribute__((__used__))
-#else
-# define __used __attribute__((__unused__))
-#endif
-
-#else
-#if __GNUC__ == 4
-# define __used __attribute__((__used__))
-#endif
-#endif
-
-#else
#include <linux/compiler.h>
-#endif
+
/* These are for everybody (although not all archs will actually
discard it in modules) */
#define __init __section(.init.text)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from richard@xxxxxx are
queue-3.18/um-stop-abusing-__kernel__.patch
queue-3.18/um-link-vmlinux-with-no-pie.patch
queue-3.18/um-remove-copy-paste-code-from-init.h.patch