On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 05:05:39PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > So how can I disable those table-* things from even getting built? Avoid
> > using table-y? But then everything declared table-y will be built
> > unconditionally. I don't think I like that. :-\
>
> I suppose we could make this configurable... But frankly I would prefer to
> instead just document that this use should be carefully considered instead,
> and let this be up to the maintainers. We can make it easily configurable so
> we can do that later becomes a required, I don't think its needed though
> given maintainers should use it only when needed.
You know how maintainers are just people, right? At least in most cases :-)
I think it would be better if it were machine-enforceable somehow.
Maybe allow it only for core code and have a single, per-arch file
arch/x86/linker_tables or so where all those statements are collected
and can be eyeballed by more people. Dunno, just trying to think of
something here...
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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