Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757947AbZGQWNi (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:13:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757912AbZGQWNh (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:13:37 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:37051 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757887AbZGQWNh (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:13:37 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:13:36 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Tim Abbott Cc: Paul Mundt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells , Anders Kaseorg Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restructure BSS linker script macros. Message-ID: <20090717221336.GA7336@merkur.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Tim Abbott , Paul Mundt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells , Anders Kaseorg References: <20090716203432.GB6096@merkur.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1827 Lines: 40 On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:58:50PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Tim Abbott wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 06:23:33PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote: > > > > I'd like acks from Sam and David on this one. Also CCing Paul, since > > > > he has a patch from me which will need to be updated to use > > > > BSS_SECTION(0, PAGE_SIZE, 4) once this gets merged. > [...] > > > Could you please resend including the necessary fix for mn10300 so we do not > > > break bisecting. > > > > I don't understand what you're asking here. The original patch I sent > > does include the necessary fix for mn10300 in the first hunk (reproduced > > below). I intentionally changed the mn10300 use at the same time as > > changing the macros in order to avoid breaking bisecting. > > I realized that you probably meant that I should resend the sh patch that > I have currently in linux-next via Paul's tree that is broken by this > change. > > Paul -- the patch below differs from the version have in two ways: > (1) I updated it to use the fixed BSS linker script macros from this > thread. > (2) I dropped the hunk that conflicted with a similar change in the percpu > tree[2], as the version of that change in the percpu tree is better. I do not expect Tejun's work to be included until next merge window. It would be nice if we could queue up a lot of vmlinux.lds cleanup patches so they are ready for next merge window. But we should rely on the arch maintainers mostly - as you nicely have done for sh here. 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/