linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of most trees

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Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:43:10 +1000
From:   Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
To:     Alan Modra <amodra@...il.com>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of most trees

On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:43:10 +0930
Alan Modra <amodra@...il.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 06:41:16PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > Is there any way for the linker to place the inputs to avoid unresolvable
> > relocations where possible?  
> 
> Not without quite a lot of work writing support for that feature.
> 

Okay, just wondering if I'd missed something. It'd probably wouldn't
be enough benefit to justify a significant amount of work. We'd be
better off looking at link time optimisation if we wanted to go that
way.

Thanks,
Nick