From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from asavdk4.altibox.net ([109.247.116.15]:50167 "EHLO asavdk4.altibox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750766AbcHHEuA (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2016 00:50:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 06:49:55 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: allow archs to select build for link dead code/data elimination Message-ID: <20160808044955.GA12952@ravnborg.org> References: <1470399123-8455-1-git-send-email-npiggin@gmail.com> <1470399123-8455-3-git-send-email-npiggin@gmail.com> <20160806201423.GB25821@ravnborg.org> <20160808132903.0e37c967@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160808132903.0e37c967@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Nicholas Piggin Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Stephen Rothwell , Arnd Bergmann , Nicolas Pitre , Segher Boessenkool , Alan Modra On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 01:29:03PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 22:14:23 +0200 > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:12:00PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > > Introduce LINKER_DCE option for architectures to select if they want > > > to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link with > > > --gc-sections. > > > > Can you please try to come up with a less cryptic name. > > "DCE" may make sense for you today. > > Bot the naive reader will benefit from the longer and > > more explcit form. > > Yes that's a good idea. The name sucks. > > We don't seem to consistently have a prefix for build configuration > options, but we could start? KBUILD_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION? For cc related options we sort of have: KCONFIG_CC IIRC. So for LD related options we could use the shorter CONFIG_LD_ prefix. Sam