Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:55:14 +0300
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
       James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
       linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
       Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@wantstofly.org>,
       Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
       linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
       Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
       Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/23] make section names compatible with
	-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections: parisc
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:41:47AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:00 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 July 2008 01:41, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:39 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > > > The purpose of this patch is to make kernel buildable
> > > > with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections".
> > > > This patch fixes parisc architecture.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
> > > 
> > > Um ... if you look at the Makefile you'll see we already build parisc
> > > with -ffunction-sections; we have to: our relative jumps are too small
> > > to guarantee finding the stubs in large files.
> > > 
> > > Since our text is -ffunction-sections compatible already, I question the
> > > need for transformations like this:
> 
> We've been building FR-V kernels with --gc-sections for a long time,
> too.
>...

Is there any specific reason why it's not done in the upstream kernel?

> dwmw2

cu
Adrian

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