From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Roberto A. Foglietta" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/23] make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections: arm Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:22:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200807020234.26755.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=hPvdog8ojDdKzb+ER4C6C3iwAzwRkPzVnVvbln07i40=; b=gLKqfZboMqUtzr0ZXDyrxkcvt+dAhmuIYdtgHu0mXlRxQY8O7mmDAn4YnXRccXSVtm jEjQxUHRw3gwn+Ymkt8QoUndCBf6GfLL3xlhVN/PMULe51oT1kfd0eZcbuHCw2sEfuMe Ge+dQQ1uQyu8wa1iVUeTURoOoP8OC4Kf398u0= In-Reply-To: <200807020234.26755.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Russell King , David Howells , Ralf Baechle , Lennert Buytenhek , Josh Boyer , Paul Mackerras , 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 , Martin Schwidefsky , Dave Miller 2008/7/2 Denys Vlasenko : > The purpose of this patch is to make kernel buildable > with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections". > This patch fixes arm architecture. > Hi Denys, I see your patchset. may I suggest you to take a look to this tools? http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/ I think it could simplify this kind of patching for the future. I found it reading the kernel janitors m-list and I hope it helps. Cheers, -- /roberto