linux-kernel - Re: Dynamic patching in discarded sections

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Message-Id: <201106161725.03366.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:25:03 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	dave.martin@...aro.org,
	"Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
Subject: Re: Dynamic patching in discarded sections

On Thursday 16 June 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 10000 randconfig kernel build later without that patch, I'm rather sure
> that there is only a single driver that is suffering from this. While your
> patch absolutely makes sense, a less invasive workaround would be to just
> not mark mmc_spi_remove as __devexit until Dave's patch gets in.

Scratch that. Even when Dave's patch gets into binutils, we'd still need to
make a compile time decision to figure out if the linker is new enough, so
we definitely need Nicolas' patch as well.

	Arnd
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