Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755261AbZDVMwq (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:52:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752838AbZDVMwg (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:52:36 -0400 Received: from 124x34x33x190.ap124.ftth.ucom.ne.jp ([124.34.33.190]:46819 "EHLO master.linux-sh.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752492AbZDVMwg (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:52:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:47:27 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: Rusty Russell Cc: Linus Torvalds , Tim Abbott , Linux kernel mailing list , Anders Kaseorg , Waseem Daher , Denys Vlasenko , 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 Message-ID: <20090422124727.GA7315@linux-sh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mundt , Rusty Russell , Linus Torvalds , Tim Abbott , Linux kernel mailing list , Anders Kaseorg , Waseem Daher , Denys Vlasenko , Andi Kleen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Stephen Rothwell , Jeff Arnold , Andrew Morton , Jon Masters References: <1238973278-31735-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <200904211520.57861.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200904211520.57861.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1253 Lines: 29 On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:20:56PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:10:58 am Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Tim Abbott wrote: > > > > > > Is there a problem that is preventing this -ffunction-sections patch > > > series from being merged? > > > > Quite frankly, every time I see something like this, I shudder. > > It's the section name cleanup which is the invasive part, and I'd like to > see merged now. > > I don't care so much about actually flipping the option on. > There are also already architectures in-tree that default enable it today: frv, mips, and parisc. So at least the toolchain situation seems to be sorted well enough for some people (admittedly easier if there are fewer toolchain variants floating about..). It is appealing from the embedded side at least, so it's forseeable that most of the CONFIG_EMBEDDED users will enable it purely on the size basis, especially since the tiny people seem to be mostly grasping at straws these days.. -- 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/