Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754397AbZDZJNQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:13:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752608AbZDZJM7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:12:59 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:38330 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750900AbZDZJM6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:12:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:15:05 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Paul Mundt , Tim Abbott , Linus Torvalds , 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 , Masami Hiramatsu , "Theodore Ts'o" , Nikanth Karthikesan , Arjan van de Ven , Am?rico Wang , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections Message-ID: <20090426091505.GB27809@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <1240519774-20307-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <20090424172358.GA21946@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20090426024221.GA7286@linux-sh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090426024221.GA7286@linux-sh.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1676 Lines: 40 On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:42:21AM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:10:38PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > This patch touches far too many files. > > > We should try to work out a method so we are in better control > > > of the section names, so renaming in the end is a simple patch > > > touching only a few files. > > > > OK, I'm now planning to implement this approach. > > > > > > -.section .text.head, "ax" > > > > +.section .text..head, "ax" > > > > > > Use __HEAD (from include/linux/init.h) > > > Same goes for all other uses of .text.head. > > > > I notice that __HEAD uses .head.text, while some architectures use > > .text.head. It looks like this is just an inconsistency across > > architectures that will be removed as a consequence of this cleanup work > > (no architecture uses both .head.text and .text.head). > > > The use of .text.head is quite intentional. See > f8657e1b55901e6c227094258d1fa3642fa242bd for starters. Most of the rest > of the platforms that switched did so for section mismatch avoidance > reasons, those that kept .head.text presumably did not hit these > mismatches or simply didn't care. This is a mess that Tim's patches should clean up. i386 should use .head.text - this is the 'correct' name for the head section. And modpost does not accept ".text.head" anymore - thats cleaned up some time ago. Sam -- 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/