Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755879AbZDUA2e (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:28:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752675AbZDUA2Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:28:25 -0400 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:34589 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752420AbZDUA2Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:28:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:26:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Abbott To: Linus Torvalds cc: Linux kernel mailing list , Anders Kaseorg , Waseem Daher , Denys Vlasenko , Rusty Russell , Andi Kleen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Stephen Rothwell , Jeff Arnold , Andrew Morton , Jon Masters Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1238973278-31735-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1132 Lines: 26 On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Because I absolutely hate the tools issues that I'm convinced will > happen the moment I merge it. I assume you're only worried about toolchain problems for people who are actually using the -ffunction-sections option. Would it help if the -ffunction-sections compilation option were marked as experimental until proven otherwise? If you're not willing to merge even an experimental option for -ffunction-sections, would you at least be willing to merge the first three patches in the patch series? Compiling with -ffunction-sections would not be supported by the mainline kernel, so any toolchain issues with it would not be your problem. But any vendor that wants to take advantage of -ffunction-sections would still be able to use it without having to maintain 300 lines of scattered changes to the kernel. -Tim Abbott -- 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/