From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Dynamic patching in discarded sections
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:25:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106161725.03366.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106161721.27330.arnd@arndb.de>
On Thursday 16 June 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 10000 randconfig kernel build later without that patch, I'm rather sure
> that there is only a single driver that is suffering from this. While your
> patch absolutely makes sense, a less invasive workaround would be to just
> not mark mmc_spi_remove as __devexit until Dave's patch gets in.
Scratch that. Even when Dave's patch gets into binutils, we'd still need to
make a compile time decision to figure out if the linker is new enough, so
we definitely need Nicolas' patch as well.
Arnd
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: dave.martin@linaro.org,
"Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: Dynamic patching in discarded sections
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:25:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106161725.03366.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106161721.27330.arnd@arndb.de>
On Thursday 16 June 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 10000 randconfig kernel build later without that patch, I'm rather sure
> that there is only a single driver that is suffering from this. While your
> patch absolutely makes sense, a less invasive workaround would be to just
> not mark mmc_spi_remove as __devexit until Dave's patch gets in.
Scratch that. Even when Dave's patch gets into binutils, we'd still need to
make a compile time decision to figure out if the linker is new enough, so
we definitely need Nicolas' patch as well.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-16 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-08 9:23 Dynamic patching in discarded sections Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-08 9:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-08 14:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-08 14:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-16 15:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-16 15:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-16 15:25 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-06-16 15:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-16 17:07 ` Dave Martin
2011-06-16 17:07 ` Dave Martin
2011-06-16 17:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-16 17:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
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