From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
sam@ravnborg.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: net-2.6.24 breaks powerpc mysteriously
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:43:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710140443.46788.vda.linux@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18190.62351.950590.493322@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Friday 12 October 2007 05:09, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > I supposed a hacky fix is to add __KERNEL__ ifdef protection around
> > zlib_inflate_blob() and those troublesome includes. A nicer fix is
>
> That would do, but I don't see why zlib_inflate_blob had to be added
> to inflate.c rather than being in a new file under lib/zlib_inflate.
Done.
> If nothing else, that bloats configs that currently use inflate.c (in
> the kernel) but don't need zlib_inflate_blob() - which would be all
> the existing uses. :)
I did it.
However, in general I prefer to have a better linker, one which
is capable of eliminate unused fuctions/data on the per-object basis,
not per .o file.
Patches to implement that are sent to Sam Ravnborg.
Hopefully they will make it to mainline.
--
vda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-14 3:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-12 2:22 net-2.6.24 breaks powerpc mysteriously Andrew Morton
2007-10-12 2:45 ` David Miller
2007-10-12 4:09 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-14 3:43 ` Denys Vlasenko [this message]
2007-10-14 3:40 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-10-14 4:12 ` David Miller
2007-10-12 3:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-12 4:25 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-12 4:54 ` David Miller
2007-10-12 5:18 ` David Miller
2007-10-12 5:47 ` Paul Mackerras
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