linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/15] Add new HEAD_TEXT

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Date:	Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:29:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@....EDU>
cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	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>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@....EDU>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....EDU>,
	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] Add new HEAD_TEXT_SECTION macro.



On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Tim Abbott wrote:
>
> This patch is preparation for replacing all uses of ".head.text" or
> ".text.head" in the kernel with macros, so that the section name can
> later be changed without having to touch a lot of the kernel.

I took the "trivially obvious" parts of this patch series - the ones that 
were basically trivial one-liner cleanups (in addition to the first patch 
that was needed for them, of course).

Anything that renamed files and did other infrastructure things (x86) or 
that had vmlinux.lds.S files that didn't match the nice pattern I'd much 
rather take as series of patches that first clean up the infrastructure 
and then do the replacement.

		Linus
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