Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:02:55AM -0500, Jason Wessel wrote:
>   
>> Pete/Piet Delaney wrote:
>>     
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>>> gcc 4.1.1 is still a supported compiler by kernel.org; since we have
>>> what appears to be reasonable fix and it will prevent folks who happen
>>> to be using 4.1.1 from having weird problems it seems reasonable to
>>> apply the fix.
>>>
>>>       
> That's the other thing.  I kind of think that in my git tree I reworked
> things so that it simply wasn't a problem, possibly by just getting rid
> of all of the weak functions, and the number of them that were needed.
> I think it was the case that it was always:
> - The function used was the weak one.
> - The non-weak version was an "x86'ism" and the same on i386/x86_64/ia64
> for just about everything.
>
>   

Given that it is all working at this point on the most common archs, 
with gcc that you can obtain publicly, I am inclined not to kludge for 
any particular specific compiler.   Thanks for work on the cleanup Tom. 

I would not recommend any further work around the "weak symbol" issue 
unless there is a further known problem.

Jason.

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