On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:21:16 +0200
>> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> so we are fine as long as we enable THIN_ARCHIVES
>>> and LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION at the same time
>>> on ARM.
>>
>> Well the current proposal is to unconditionally enable it for all archs
>> for 4.13. After that I'll submit patches to x86 and powerpc arch
>> maintainers to allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION as an option. I guess
>> you will do ARM and there have been MIPS guys looking at it too.
>>
>> That leaves a window of one release. ARM could unselect thin archives if
>> necessary but I think it would be much better to enable it and flush out
>> any toolchain and build issues before doing the LD_DCDE option. Disabling
>> should be a last resort if we can't fix something in time for release.
>
> I see.
[hit 'send' too early]
We can always revert 06e226c7fb23 ("clk: sunxi-ng: Move all clock types to a
library"), it's also scheduled for 4.13 and has not been in a release yet.
Arnd
