The old code didn't work on binutils 2.12 because setting a symbol to
a register apparently requires a fairly recent version.
This commit refactors the code to use the C preprocessor instead, and
in the process makes the whole code a bit easier to understand.
The object code produced is unchanged as expected.
This fixes kernel bugzilla 16506.
Reported-by: Dieter Stussy <kd6lvw+software@kd6lvw.ampr.org>
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.35
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
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