Re: [2.6 patch] fix non-modular ftape compile

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:19:13PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:03:25PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > It increases the kernel size since in 2.6 __exit functions are discarded 
> > at runtime and not at link time.
> 
> Oh.  That sounds silly.  Do you remember who changed it and why?

Andi Kleen changed it, it was needed for .altinstructions .

cu
Adrian

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