From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:25:03 +0200 Subject: Dynamic patching in discarded sections In-Reply-To: <201106161721.27330.arnd@arndb.de> References: <201106081123.59414.arnd@arndb.de> <201106161721.27330.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <201106161725.03366.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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