Re: [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

Daniel Walker
2007-09-05T19:20:09Z

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:14 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2007 19:38, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > > You version doesn't work with CONFIG_MODULES right?
> > >
> > > It works with CONFIG_MODULES.
> >
> > Really? Take a look at this version,
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/4/169
> >
> > Marcello had to implement a two pass build to add back symbol used in
> > modules which got removed from the main kernel.. You don't appear to do
> > that. Marcelo also claims better size reduction than you.
>
> This will discard EXPORT_SYMBOLs potentially used by
> out-of-tree modules.

Right , so it doesn't work with modules..

Daniel