Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753913AbZD0FBE (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:01:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751500AbZD0FAw (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:00:52 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:55767 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750800AbZD0FAv (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:00:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:59:10 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Linus Torvalds , Tim Abbott , 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 , Paul Mundt , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico?= Wang , Ralf Baechle , Kyle McMartin , David Howells , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] x86: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros. Message-ID: <20090427045910.GA11868@elte.hu> References: <1240711870-30505-10-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240711870-30505-11-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240711870-30505-12-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240711870-30505-13-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <1240711870-30505-14-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> <20090426183401.GA1622@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20090426192317.GA2637@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090426192317.GA2637@uranus.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1156 Lines: 29 * Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > As mentioned, though, the much more interesting case would be > > the _real_ kernel vmlinux.lds.S file, which is a lot more > > complex and where the differences between 32-bit and 64-bit > > cases aren't totally trivial. > > Agreed. > > But I expect someone else to do so. > When I am in unification mode I try to spend time on > architectures with less people involved. thanks for reconsidering - and i've applied your patch - thanks Sam. Architectures with lots of people involved (hm, what a strange way to say 'x86' ;-) tend to be logistically more complex and there's an (understandably) stronger pushback against regressions - but that is also where unification is actually needed the most and where the ongoing costs of splintered code is the highest. Your kbuild patches are making quite a bit of difference so please dont hold back :) Ingo -- 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/