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

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Message-ID: <49C8F24D.6000603@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:46:37 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@....EDU>
CC:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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>,
	Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@....EDU>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections
 -fdata-sections

Tim Abbott wrote:
> 
> Yeah, unfortunately, because people are always modifying the kernel's 
> "magic" sections, a version of the patch that applies to master will 
> basically always conflict with something in linux-next (at least, this has 
> been my experience updating it during the 2.6.29 release cycle).  As Rusty 
> Russell said last month about this patch, there's no good time for this 
> kind of change.
> 

"Just before -rc1" is pretty much the only time to do this kind of 
changes.  It's not the first time we have had this issue.

	-hpa

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