Re: [PATCH 5/23] make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections: blackfin

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> The purpose of this patch is to make kernel buildable
> with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections".
> This patch fixes blackfin architecture.

the comment right above what you changed says it already works for
Blackfin.  so you arent fixing it at all.
>                /* This gets done first, so the glob doesn't suck it in */
>                . = ALIGN(32);
> -               *(.data.cacheline_aligned)
> +               *(.cacheline_aligned.data)

ive built Blackfin kernels with function/data sections a long time ago
... but iirc, there were toolchain problems, so i havent pursued it
since.

if you're going to muck with names, you might as well do it right the
first time: move the names into asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h so we dont
have to worry about this kind of churn again.
-mike
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