Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267566AbUIHNJN (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:09:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267700AbUIHNG3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:06:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:31902 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267238AbUIHNDf (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:03:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] generic-hardirqs.patch, 2.6.9-rc1-bk14 From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Scott Wood In-Reply-To: <20040908124547.GA19231@elte.hu> References: <20040908120613.GA16916@elte.hu> <20040908133445.A31267@infradead.org> <20040908124547.GA19231@elte.hu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-jfK7iwFdaEhMj1cjMEKb" Organization: Red Hat UK Message-Id: <1094648591.2800.10.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 15:03:12 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 33 --=-jfK7iwFdaEhMj1cjMEKb Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > wrt. unused generic functions - why dont we drop them link-time? actually if nothing uses ANY function of a .o file then yes the entire .o gets dropped. (we should make the kernel use -ffunction-sections some day to make it on a per function instead of on a per .o file basis) --=-jfK7iwFdaEhMj1cjMEKb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBPwMPxULwo51rQBIRAq5MAJ9rgXjKmKnLWcvOIzLtoTGi1TrITACdEKeu HUZ08zTUOoHYf5uh/rF/NZ8= =IASB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-jfK7iwFdaEhMj1cjMEKb-- - 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/