From: dave.martin@linaro.org (Dave Martin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Dynamic patching in discarded sections
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:07:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110616170754.GA30370@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106161725.03366.arnd@arndb.de>
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 05:25:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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
It would be nice to get it merged for the longer term, but we'll have
quite a long transitional period while the change propagates.
So we'd still need some other workaround for now.
Cheers
---Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-16 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-08 9:23 Dynamic patching in discarded sections Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-08 14:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-16 15:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-16 15:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-16 17:07 ` Dave Martin [this message]
2011-06-16 17:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
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