Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264321AbUASAxC (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:53:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264323AbUASAxC (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:53:02 -0500 Received: from are.twiddle.net ([64.81.246.98]:30097 "EHLO are.twiddle.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264321AbUASAw5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:52:57 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:52:44 -0800 From: Richard Henderson To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , jh@suse.cz, Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add noinline attribute - new extable sort patch Message-ID: <20040119005244.GB32149@twiddle.net> Mail-Followup-To: Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , jh@suse.cz, Kernel Mailing List References: <20040114083114.GA1784@averell> <20040115074834.GA38796@colin2.muc.de> <20040116101345.GA96037@colin2.muc.de> <20040118204700.GA31601@twiddle.net> <20040118230743.GA12989@colin2.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040118230743.GA12989@colin2.muc.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 733 Lines: 17 On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:07:43AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > I looked at it more closely now. Alpha (and IA64 which uses the same > format) would be relatively easy to do. But sparc and sparc64 have a > very strange different format which would be too complicated to handle. I don't think that's true. Yes, sparc and sparc64 have paired entries, but they should still sort consecutive. If there were an entry that, after sorting, came between them, something would be Very Wrong. r~ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/