From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Denys Vlasenko Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:12:30 +0200 Message-ID: <200806232112.30393.vda.linux@googlemail.com> References: <1209577322.25560.402.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200806231922.10864.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <20080623185728.GB30550@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=7edWihYmoQDHxfV4aK86nOO6PwKNet13uDTlHVOzc+M=; b=TXqPFb3NaDO3nO81m2gffFXLJV3rjs6HklFLq8oHT0it7ZPa7rX2h27k1EBRKuZ7H0 nHXkVdb0nXSqWIAPGt1JV9q+SBns+zelpQAg2rjTxZJ4FC8sTZt7yw4uNMdCLamD8CI2 3mel07yLiy2IkLreI81XRIAlAhJRAOVyWFKRw= In-Reply-To: <20080623185728.GB30550@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Sam Ravnborg 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 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. Had they been applied, now making --gc-sections to work would be easier. -- vda