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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use ld's garbage collection feature
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:35:46 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060605143546.GA2878@dmt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606042251.46575.dtor_core@ameritech.net>

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:51:45PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sunday 04 June 2006 20:31, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Current implementation requires "make modules" to be run before "make
> > vmlinux" (need to know what functions used by modules must be kept), but
> > 
> 
> How will it work with out of tree modules? Or even modules one decides
> to add later and use without rebooting?

Right, exported symbols must be kept in that case. An extra option to
enable exported symbol gc as dwmw2 suggests should do the trick.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-05 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-05  0:31 [PATCH] Use ld's garbage collection feature Marcelo Tosatti
2006-06-05  2:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-06-05 14:35   ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2006-06-05  8:22 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-05 10:03 ` David Woodhouse
2006-06-05 14:36   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-06-05 14:48     ` David Woodhouse

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