Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:13:36 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Restructure BSS linker script macros. |
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:58:50PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Tim Abbott wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 06:23:33PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote: > > > > I'd like acks from Sam and David on this one. Also CCing Paul, since > > > > he has a patch from me which will need to be updated to use > > > > BSS_SECTION(0, PAGE_SIZE, 4) once this gets merged. > [...] > > > Could you please resend including the necessary fix for mn10300 so we do not > > > break bisecting. > > > > I don't understand what you're asking here. The original patch I sent > > does include the necessary fix for mn10300 in the first hunk (reproduced > > below). I intentionally changed the mn10300 use at the same time as > > changing the macros in order to avoid breaking bisecting. > > I realized that you probably meant that I should resend the sh patch that > I have currently in linux-next via Paul's tree that is broken by this > change. > > Paul -- the patch below differs from the version have in two ways: > (1) I updated it to use the fixed BSS linker script macros from this > thread. > (2) I dropped the hunk that conflicted with a similar change in the percpu > tree[2], as the version of that change in the percpu tree is better.
I do not expect Tejun's work to be included until next merge window. It would be nice if we could queue up a lot of vmlinux.lds cleanup patches so they are ready for next merge window. But we should rely on the arch maintainers mostly - as you nicely have done for sh here.
Sam
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