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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] Make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
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Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@MIT.EDU> writes:

> From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
>
> This patch was originally written by Denys Vlasenko, but it has been
> substantially modified by Anders Kaseorg and Tim Abbott to update it
> to apply to the current kernel and fix bugs. Any bugs were added by
> Anders Kaseorg and Tim Abbott.
>
> The purpose of this patch is to make it possible to build the kernel
> with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections".

This patch seems to be a good thing regardless of ksplice or not.
I would suggest to push it separately.

It's quite large and touches a lot of code, so it probably
would require special treatment during a merge window to avoid
conflicts.

-Andi

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ak@linux.intel.com


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