Re: [PATCH] Allow linker to eliminate unused functions in lib/*

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jan 11 2010 - 05:52:07 EST


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:17:08AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Andi, how do you want to handle the overlap between this and the
> list_sort() patch I sent? I'm going to need a list_sort() available
> in the XFS tree well before the 2.6.34 merge window....

Honestly, if Andrew and Linus play with the game I'd just throw in your
patch to move the two indentical list_sort implementations into lib/
right now. It's just moving stuff around so the normal merge window
shouldn't apply. This would make life a lot easier for introducing new
users in .34.

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