Excerpts from Rui Salvaterra's message of July 1, 2021 8:00 pm: > Hi, Tobias, > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 at 10:22, <tobias.karnat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have found your patch to enable x86 dead code and data elimination on the openwrt-devel mailing list and I wonder if you can sent it upstream to the kernel mailing list? > > As I quoted, mine is an adaptation of Nicholas Piggin's original > patch, basically a forward-port to 5.4 (5.10 in my OpenWrt tree [1]). > Since the original proposal has been sent upstream and hasn't been > merged, there are probably good reasons for it (even though it works > perfectly for my use case). Nicholas, any idea on why your original > patch [2] hasn't been merged? Not sure, I didn't do much testing or try too hard to get it upstream. If you have found it works and is helpful I don't see why it couldn't be merged. Feel free to submit it. Thanks, Nick
