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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:20:17 -0700
Subject: RE: [PATCH 02/10] linker script: throw away .discard section
Thread-Topic: [PATCH 02/10] linker script: throw away .discard section
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> x86 throws away .discard section but no other archs do.  Also,
> .discard is not thrown away while linking modules.  Make every arch
> and module linking throw it away.  This will be used to define dummy
> variables for percpu declarations and definitions.

Seems harmless on ia64.  Kernel still builds, boots and loads
modules.

Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

-Tony
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