From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>,
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: allow archs to select build for link dead code/data elimination
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 06:49:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160808044955.GA12952@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160808132903.0e37c967@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 01:29:03PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 22:14:23 +0200
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:12:00PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > > Introduce LINKER_DCE option for architectures to select if they want
> > > to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link with
> > > --gc-sections.
> >
> > Can you please try to come up with a less cryptic name.
> > "DCE" may make sense for you today.
> > Bot the naive reader will benefit from the longer and
> > more explcit form.
>
> Yes that's a good idea. The name sucks.
>
> We don't seem to consistently have a prefix for build configuration
> options, but we could start? KBUILD_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION?
For cc related options we sort of have: KCONFIG_CC IIRC.
So for LD related options we could use the shorter CONFIG_LD_ prefix.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-08 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-05 12:11 [RFC][PATCH 0/5] kbuild changes, thin archives, --gc-sections Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 12:11 ` [PATCH 1/5] kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-06 3:50 ` kbuild test robot
2016-08-06 3:50 ` kbuild test robot
2016-08-06 3:50 ` kbuild test robot
2016-08-06 20:10 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-07 1:49 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-08-07 3:34 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-07 4:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-07 14:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:19 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 4:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:25 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 9:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: allow archs to select build for link dead code/data elimination Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-06 20:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:29 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 4:49 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2016-08-07 5:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-08 3:42 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 4:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-08 4:27 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-07 9:57 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-07 11:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-08-07 20:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-07 23:49 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-08 15:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-08 23:50 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-09 22:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-09 3:16 ` Andi Kleen
2016-08-09 22:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-09 23:08 ` Andi Kleen
2016-08-10 0:37 ` Andi Kleen
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] kbuild: add arch specific post-module-link pass Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 13:56 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-06 20:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:30 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] powerpc: switch to using thin archives Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] powerpc/64: use linker dce Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 13:32 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/5] kbuild changes, thin archives, --gc-sections Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 13:32 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-07 20:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-08 3:53 ` Nicholas Piggin
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