linux-kernel - Linker script cleanup / consolidation

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Message-ID: <20070524200440.GA1109@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Thu, 24 May 2007 22:04:40 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sparc@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Linker script cleanup / consolidation

With basis in sparc64 I did a small cleanup / consolidation work.
The sparc64 lds script is by no menas the worst to look at but
a anyway a good place to start.

In the following patch serie I did:
-> Introduce a C-like indention style
-> Introduce use of PAGE_SIZE as replacement for hardcoded constant
-> Consoildate initramfs definition

While browsing the other arch lds files I saw many other smaller
items that could be consolidated but creating a define for
something like 3-5 lines was to push it too much.

If there are a number of sections that could be defined together
I would like to combine then in a common section but I do 
know too little about the linker scripts to determine this.

The other archs shall have a similar clean-up over time.
sparc64 was just a good place to start because David had
expressed that he liked the consolidation.

	Sam
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