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Message-ID: <1301.1240954032@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:27:12 +0100 From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@....EDU> Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, 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>, Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@....EDU>, Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections. Tim Abbott <tabbott@....EDU> wrote: > This patch is preparation for replacing most uses of > ".bss.page_aligned" and ".data.page_aligned" in the kernel with > macros, so that the section name can later be changed without having > to touch a lot of the kernel. > > The long-term goal here is to be able to change the kernel's magic > section names to those that are compatible with -ffunction-sections > -fdata-sections. This requires renaming all magic sections with names > of the form ".data.foo". > > Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@....edu> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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