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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 07:12:11 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> Cc: torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, uclinux-dev@...inux.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] FRV: Permit __do_IRQ() to be dispensed with * David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote: > +#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ > +#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ > +#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ I think the myriad of arch switches and the resulting #ifdef noise, just to get rid of a _single_ unused global function, is pretty lame. (and that's of course not your fault) The real solution would be to use gcc -ffunction-sections plus ld --gc-sections to automatically get rid of unused global functions, at link time. I'm wondering how hard it would be to enhance kbuild to do that - x86_64 already uses -ffunction-sections (if CONFIG_REORDER), so the big question is how usable is ld --gc-sections. Such a feature would be quite important for embedded systems (and for RAM footprint in general) as it would save a significant amount of .text and .data. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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