Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections

Stephen Rothwell
2009-03-24T06:07:29Z

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Hi Tim,

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:28:41 -0400 Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
> I'd like to see this patch series merged for 2.6.30. It applies on
> top of your current master (aka v2.6.29). Patch 1/4 would benefit
> from special treatment during the merge window, since it makes many
> small changes in lots of files, and thus is likely to conflict with
> other changes; the other patches are fairly small.

Indeed. I just did a merge of your changes with next-20090323 and it
conflicted with changes in 10 files across 4 architectures. There has
been work on several areas that you are changing here (some of which will
make your life easier - like the percpu changes). I suspect that at
least some of patch 1/4 could have bee split out and sent to the
appropriate maintainers.

As it is, It looks like this will need to be rebased on top of (say)
2.6.30-rc1 (at least) in order not to inflict too much pain on others.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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