Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:41:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: Dynamic patching in discarded sections |
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 05:25:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 16 June 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > 10000 randconfig kernel build later without that patch, I'm rather sure > > > that there is only a single driver that is suffering from this. While your > > > patch absolutely makes sense, a less invasive workaround would be to just > > > not mark mmc_spi_remove as __devexit until Dave's patch gets in. > > > > Scratch that. Even when Dave's patch gets into binutils, we'd still need to > > make a compile time decision to figure out if the linker is new enough, so > > we definitely need Nicolas' patch as well. > > > > Arnd > > It would be nice to get it merged for the longer term, but we'll have > quite a long transitional period while the change propagates.
That is assuming such a change gets merged to start with.
Nicolas
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