Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections. | Date | Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:27:12 +0100 |
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Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> This patch is preparation for replacing most uses of > ".bss.page_aligned" and ".data.page_aligned" in the kernel with > macros, so that the section name can later be changed without having > to touch a lot of the kernel. > > The long-term goal here is to be able to change the kernel's magic > section names to those that are compatible with -ffunction-sections > -fdata-sections. This requires renaming all magic sections with names > of the form ".data.foo". > > Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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