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From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 3:27 pm

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

It's __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__, I believe.

So yes, we can distinguish 4.1.2 (good, and very common) from 4.1.{0,1} 
(bad, and rather uncommon).

And yes, considering that 4.1.1 (and even more so 4.1.0) should be rare to 
begin with, I think it's better to just not support it.

			Linus
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[PATCH] /dev/mem gcc weak function workaround, Venki Pallipadi, (Tue Apr 29, 6:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH] /dev/mem gcc weak function workaround, David Miller, (Tue Apr 29, 9:28 pm)
RE: [PATCH] /dev/mem gcc weak function workaround, Pallipadi, Venkatesh, (Wed Apr 30, 5:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] /dev/mem gcc weak function workaround, Tom Rini, (Wed Apr 30, 1:15 pm)
huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Adrian Bunk, (Thu May 1, 2:56 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Andrew Morton, (Thu May 1, 3:20 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Linus Torvalds, (Thu May 1, 3:27 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Andrew Morton, (Thu May 1, 3:33 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Venki Pallipadi, (Thu May 1, 3:35 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Andrew Morton, (Thu May 1, 3:42 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Jakub Jelinek, (Thu May 1, 3:49 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, David Miller, (Thu May 1, 3:51 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Tom Rini, (Thu May 1, 4:21 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Tom Rini, (Thu May 1, 4:23 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Tom Rini, (Thu May 1, 4:24 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Venki Pallipadi, (Thu May 1, 4:30 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Andrew Morton, (Thu May 1, 4:59 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Justin Mattock, (Thu May 1, 5:21 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Linus Torvalds, (Thu May 1, 5:34 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Suresh Siddha, (Thu May 1, 5:39 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Vegard Nossum, (Fri May 2, 12:18 am)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Adrian Bunk, (Fri May 2, 1:10 am)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Andi Kleen, (Fri May 2, 2:09 am)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Theodore Tso, (Fri May 2, 6:43 am)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri May 2, 2:09 pm)
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Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, Adrian Bunk, (Fri May 2, 2:19 pm)
Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem, David Miller, (Fri May 2, 3:02 pm)
[2.6.26 patch] #error for gcc 4.1.{0,1}, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Jun 26, 3:37 am)