Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] Make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:46:58 +0100 |
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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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