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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: provide THIN_ARCHIVES option for all
 architectures
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 00:34:34 +1000
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On Mon, 29 May 2017 20:33:55 +1000
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
> 
> On Mon, 29 May 2017 18:11:03 +1000 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> > index 6c00e5b00f8b..28e64cb65dd5 100644
> > --- a/arch/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> > @@ -511,10 +511,23 @@ config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
> >  endchoice
> >  
> >  config THIN_ARCHIVES
> > -	bool
> > +	bool "Build the kernel using thin archives"
> > +	default n  
> 
> Of course, this will be enabled by allmodconfig, etc builds ...
> 

Yes that is true. Thanks for making a note of it -- I guess the
changelog could be interpreted as implying no change to any
existing build without arch enablement. I didn't intend to mislead
there.

Thanks,
Nick