On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 01:29:03PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 22:14:23 +0200 > Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:12:00PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > > Introduce LINKER_DCE option for architectures to select if they want > > > to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link with > > > --gc-sections. > > > > Can you please try to come up with a less cryptic name. > > "DCE" may make sense for you today. > > Bot the naive reader will benefit from the longer and > > more explcit form. > > Yes that's a good idea. The name sucks. > > We don't seem to consistently have a prefix for build configuration > options, but we could start? KBUILD_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION? For cc related options we sort of have: KCONFIG_CC IIRC. So for LD related options we could use the shorter CONFIG_LD_ prefix. 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
