linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/sortextable: support objects with more than 64K sections.

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Message-ID: <509850F4.2060205@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:51:16 -0800
From:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>
To:	Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@...cle.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/sortextable: support objects with more than 64K
 sections.

On 11/05/2012 01:06 AM, Jamie Iles wrote:
> Building with a large config and -ffunction-sections results in a large
> number of sections and sortextable needs to be able to handle that.
> Implement support for > 64K sections as modpost does.
>
> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@...cle.com>
> ---
>   scripts/sortextable.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   scripts/sortextable.h |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
>   2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

I don't plan on extensively testing this, but I have no objections.

David Daney
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