Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:59:31 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Regression [Was: Boot hang with stack protector on x86_64] |
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:43:08 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > This is a regression. Can you please revert this commit. > > Not really. The thing is, CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR has never done > anything at all, now it does, and it shows that it never worked. > > So the commit that made it do something shouldn't be reverted, but > CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR should be marked BROKEN, because it > obviously is broken right now. > > But keeping the config option, and just not making it do anything is > misleading and wrong. > > So just something like this? To make sure normal people don't enable > it..
looks fair; once the patches to make it work are merged the B0RKEN can go away again easliy
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