linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 01/22] Generic show

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Message-ID: <20080405175233.GA4421@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:52:33 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 01/22] Generic show_mem() implementation

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 10:04:03AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:51:08AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> 
> > But you can solve this problem with no ifdefs and config options at all,
> > since you may as well just use __attribute__((weak)) for the generic
> > implementation.
> 
> Which may result in the version of the function getting linked in but
> staying unreferenced.

Oh, I assumed ld would support -dead_strip in the meantime to get rid of
unreferenced functions. Looks like it still doesn't.
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