linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections

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Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:07:00 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@....EDU>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tim Abbott <tabbott@....edu>, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@....edu>,
	Waseem Daher <wdaher@....edu>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections
 -fdata-sections

Hi Tim,

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:28:41 -0400 Tim Abbott <tabbott@....EDU> wrote:
>
> I'd like to see this patch series merged for 2.6.30.  It applies on
> top of your current master (aka v2.6.29).  Patch 1/4 would benefit
> from special treatment during the merge window, since it makes many
> small changes in lots of files, and thus is likely to conflict with
> other changes; the other patches are fairly small.

Indeed.  I just did a merge of your changes with next-20090323 and it
conflicted with changes in 10 files across 4 architectures.  There has
been work on several areas that you are changing here (some of which will
make your life easier - like the percpu changes).  I suspect that at
least some of patch 1/4 could have bee split out and sent to the
appropriate maintainers.

As it is, It looks like this will need to be rebased on top of (say)
2.6.30-rc1 (at least) in order not to inflict too much pain on others.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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