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

H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-24T14:47:56Z

Tim Abbott wrote:
>
> Yeah, unfortunately, because people are always modifying the kernel's
> "magic" sections, a version of the patch that applies to master will
> basically always conflict with something in linux-next (at least, this has
> been my experience updating it during the 2.6.29 release cycle). As Rusty
> Russell said last month about this patch, there's no good time for this
> kind of change.
>

"Just before -rc1" is pretty much the only time to do this kind of
changes. It's not the first time we have had this issue.

-hpa