Re: [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection forvmlinux

[Daniel Walker]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:49 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:

> What does "it" stand for in this sentence?

"it" is your patches, and I think we got to bottom of it .. "it" (i.e.
your patches) don't actually work with modules, which is what you
originally contended ..

> My patch was tested to work in my limited testing,
> but it is very conservative.
> 
> I can't talk for Marcelo, but his patch probably worked too,
> it just didn't guarantee that you can install kernel, and
> then compile and load external module. Wel, it will compile,
> but maybe will fail to load.

At least you should modify your Kconfig changes so that you don't allow
people to select your new option unless they have CONFIG_MODULES off..

Daniel

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