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commit 948252cb9e01d65a89ecadf67be5018351eee15e Author: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Date: Tue May 31 19:27:48 2011 -0700
Revert "net: fix section mismatches"
This reverts commit e5cb966c0838e4da43a3b0751bdcac7fe719f7b4.
It causes new build regressions with gcc-4.2 which is pretty common on non-x86 platforms.
Reported-by: James Bottomley James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net
and postings that led to this revert including: