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From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:57:43 +0100
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On Wednesday 05 September 2007 20:46, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:49 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> > What does "it" stand for in this sentence?
> 
> "it" is your patches, and I think we got to bottom of it .. "it" (i.e.
> your patches) don't actually work with modules, which is what you
> originally contended ..

Kernel builds, loads and runs with my patches, and modules load just fine.

> > My patch was tested to work in my limited testing,
> > but it is very conservative.
> > 
> > I can't talk for Marcelo, but his patch probably worked too,
> > it just didn't guarantee that you can install kernel, and
> > then compile and load external module. Wel, it will compile,
> > but maybe will fail to load.
> 
> At least you should modify your Kconfig changes so that you don't allow
> people to select your new option unless they have CONFIG_MODULES off..

You seem to have interesting definition of "desn't work".
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vda
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