Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix build with older binutilsandconsolidate linker script

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:

> >>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 25.08.09 16:14 >>>
> >
> >* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
> >
> >> >>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 25.08.09 15:56 >>>
> >> >Would it be possible to split it into two pieces: 'minimal fix' and 
> >> >'clean up' portions?
> >> 
> >> Besides being cumbersome, that would make it even larger, so I'd 
> >> say that's not worth it.
> >
> >I mean the two patches yield the same end result. The first one 
> 
> I also understood it that way.
> 
> >(which is smaller, hopefully) gets committed to x86/urgent, the 
> >second one (the cleanups and other non-essentials) gets pushed 
> >upstream in .32.
> 
> The cleanup part really isn't much more than what I described with 
> "Once touching this code, also use the various data section helper 
> macros from include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.", and if the first 
> patch wouldn't use those macros, it would just grow and become 
> even less readable.

fair enough. Lets hope it all goes fine.

	Ingo