Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: kernel segv with 2.6.31-rc6 ? | Date | Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:50:34 +0930 |
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:54:32 am Roland McGrath wrote: > > Actually, x86 was one of the archs which fucked us. Richard Henderson and > > I *had* this, but ld -shared without -fPIC helpfully tells you "you're doing > > it wrong" on x86-64. > > This complaint could easily be (have been) made optional.
Yep, I even had a patch. And meanwhile we could have lived with -fPIC modules with some loss of performance (I think).
But at some level the problems accumulate until you go "nice idea, let's go do something else" :)
But don't let me discourage you! Rusty.
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