To: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>, Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>,
       Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>, Waseem Daher <wdaher@MIT.EDU>,
       Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
References: <1228521840-3886-1-git-send-email-jbarnold@mit.edu>
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Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:46:58 +0100
In-Reply-To: <1228521840-3886-2-git-send-email-jbarnold@mit.edu> (Jeff Arnold's message of "Fri,  5 Dec 2008 19:03:54 -0500")
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Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@MIT.EDU> writes:

> From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
>
> This patch was originally written by Denys Vlasenko, but it has been
> substantially modified by Anders Kaseorg and Tim Abbott to update it
> to apply to the current kernel and fix bugs.  Any bugs were added by
> Anders Kaseorg and Tim Abbott.
>
> The purpose of this patch is to make it possible to build the kernel
> with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections".

This patch seems to be a good thing regardless of ksplice or not.
I would suggest to push it separately.

It's quite large and touches a lot of code, so it probably
would require special treatment during a merge window to avoid
conflicts.

-Andi

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