linux-kernel - [PATCH] kbuild: reword help of LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA

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Date:   Sun, 24 Jun 2018 01:41:51 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: reword help of LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

Since commit 5d20ee3192a5 ("kbuild: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
to be selectable if enabled"), HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is
supposed to be selected by architectures that are capable of this
functionality.  LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is now users' selection.
Update the help message.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
---

 init/Kconfig | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index fde3d09..041f3a0 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1051,10 +1051,9 @@ config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 	depends on EXPERT
 	help
-	  Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
-	  data elimination with the linker by compiling with
-	  -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, and linking with
-	  --gc-sections.
+	  Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with
+	  the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
+	  and linking with --gc-sections.
 
 	  This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
 	  code and static data, particularly for small configs and
-- 
2.7.4