On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:27:12PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have > considerable differences. This led to linker script for each arch > implementing its own /DISCARD/ definition, which makes maintaining > tedious and adding new entries error-prone. > > This patch makes all linker scripts to move discard definitions to the > end of the linker script and use the common DISCARDS macro. As ld > uses the first matching section definition, archs can include default > discarded sections by including them earlier in the linker script. > > ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific > subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final > image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion. > > defconfig compile tested for x86, x86-64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64, > alpha, sparc, sparc64 and s390. Michal Simek tested microblaze. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Patch looks good - thanks! Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
