Re: kbuild: Preparing for merge window

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:58:13PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> The following is the list of patches queued up for the merge window at the moment.
> I have during the last week done several modpost changes to make section ismatch
> warnings more reliable and I am happy with the modified modpost code now.
> 
> The warnings generated will if CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y be verbose
> so it better guides the developer how to fix the warning.
> 
> Other patches of interest:
> 
> - We now have separate sections for all init/exit annotations
> - We have restarted getting kconfig globalized, pending is widechar support
> - Support for modules.order to tell in what order to load modules
> - lots of small fixes/enhancements
> 
> The diffstat say that we touch a lot of files.
> This is due to the following changes (mainly):
> - consolidation touching all .lds.S files
> - removal ofstale comment about make dep
> - removal of obsolete __attribute_used__
> - removal of TOPDIR
> 
> Patches will follow for review.

Patches will be sent to linux-kbuild only.

	Sam