Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:20:17 -0700 | Subject | RE: [PATCH 02/10] linker script: throw away .discard section |
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> x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do. Also, > .discard is not thrown away while linking modules. Make every arch > and module linking throw it away. This will be used to define dummy > variables for percpu declarations and definitions.
Seems harmless on ia64. Kernel still builds, boots and loads modules.
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
-Tony
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