On March 1, 2017 9:01:54 AM PST, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:44 AM, <h...@zytor.com> wrote: >> >> I would like to see a name like, say, ".annot.unreachable", since is >odds are pretty high we are going to need more annotations in the >future. > >Why not just make it ".discard.unreachable", and then make the discard >pattern be ".discard*". > >We already have .discard.text for some trace hackery, so it follows a >pattern. > >And that's what we do for things like .rodata.* etc. > >In fact, we already have a pattern for '.discard.*' in the main >vmlinux.lds.h file exactly for the .discard.text case (but not for >modules, it looks like). > > Linus
I was assuming it would be used for more than just discarding. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.