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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:46:37 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections
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Tim Abbott wrote:
> 
> Yeah, unfortunately, because people are always modifying the kernel's 
> "magic" sections, a version of the patch that applies to master will 
> basically always conflict with something in linux-next (at least, this has 
> been my experience updating it during the 2.6.29 release cycle).  As Rusty 
> Russell said last month about this patch, there's no good time for this 
> kind of change.
> 

"Just before -rc1" is pretty much the only time to do this kind of 
changes.  It's not the first time we have had this issue.

	-hpa

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