Subject: Re: Please pull powerpc.git for_paulus branch (fwd)

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 13:36:23 +0200

> although I still don't understand
> why using .comm in assembler code is suddenly verboten...

If a kernel module refers to a common symbol things go boom.
modpost complains about it, it isn't smart enough to see
that there is no problem here.

Segher