Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:07:54 +0100
From: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: Dynamic patching in discarded sections
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 05:25:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 16 June 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 10000 randconfig kernel build later without that patch, I'm rather sure
> > that there is only a single driver that is suffering from this. While your
> > patch absolutely makes sense, a less invasive workaround would be to just
> > not mark mmc_spi_remove as __devexit until Dave's patch gets in.
> 
> Scratch that. Even when Dave's patch gets into binutils, we'd still need to
> make a compile time decision to figure out if the linker is new enough, so
> we definitely need Nicolas' patch as well.
> 
> 	Arnd

It would be nice to get it merged for the longer term, but we'll have
quite a long transitional period while the change propagates.

So we'd still need some other workaround for now.

Cheers
---Dave

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