Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections-fdata-sections

[Tim Abbott]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Because I absolutely hate the tools issues that I'm convinced will 
> happen the moment I merge it.

I assume you're only worried about toolchain problems for people who are 
actually using the -ffunction-sections option.  Would it help if the 
-ffunction-sections compilation option were marked as experimental until 
proven otherwise?

If you're not willing to merge even an experimental option for 
-ffunction-sections, would you at least be willing to merge the first 
three patches in the patch series?  Compiling with -ffunction-sections 
would not be supported by the mainline kernel, so any toolchain issues 
with it would not be your problem.  But any vendor that wants to take 
advantage of -ffunction-sections would still be able to use it without 
having to maintain 300 lines of scattered changes to the kernel.

	-Tim Abbott


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