From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:33:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20080623193340.GA836@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <1209577322.25560.402.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200806231922.10864.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <20080623185728.GB30550@uranus.ravnborg.org> <200806232112.30393.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200806232112.30393.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: David Woodhouse , Andi Kleen , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Paul Gortmaker , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Bird On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:12:30PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2008 20:57, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > I agree. And if we do want to pay attention to pure code size, there are > > > > other approaches -- like --gc-sections > > > > > > I have some patches in this area too. Were submitted to Sam > > > but he was too busy it seems. > > > > They were not trivial to apply and so went down on the TODO list. > > I realize that they were not trivial to review, but that > was unavoidable. They were even more not trivial to create. > > > We could try to push the generic and x86 specific .lds stuff via > > the arch maintainers? > > IIRC I splitted the entire GC collection patch in a way > that first patches were doing exactly this easier first part > and I hoped that at least these first patches > will be taken. They were big, but somewhat trivial, > from "it's obviously safe" department. I do not recall anything wrong with the patch-set. > > Had they been applied, now making --gc-sections to work > would be easier. Agreed. I should have asked you to push this via arch maintainers back then. Sam