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List:       linux-backports
Subject:    Re: failure to build backports on ubuntu
From:       "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof () do-not-panic ! com>
Date:       2014-10-29 8:23:31
Message-ID: CAB=NE6UTD9YqpbR3Cu0bmSf0iKyjgfUUGKFkCD49nMU12dfLig () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 13:21 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> The kernel solution to this uses an internal kernel variables to
>> prefix flags for the linker,
>
> Can't we just figure out how the kernel derives that variable and do the
> same?

I had and it relies on an internal practice on flags, I don't recall
the details but I remember determining we'd have to do a major hack of
our own.

> After all, the kernel doesn't do magic ... not more than we do in
> backports anyway :)

I actually think this is a linker bug... but too lazy to prove it
other than my commit log on it.

  Luis
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