From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:41:51 +0000 (+0900) Subject: kbuild: reword help of LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8b9d27124094964b3c4f8985ba66355ac4d9e842;p=linux.git kbuild: reword help of LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION Since commit 5d20ee3192a5 ("kbuild: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selectable if enabled"), HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is supposed to be selected by architectures that are capable of this functionality. LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is now users' selection. Update the help message. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada --- diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 5a52f07259a2a..eaad1536647fd 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1051,10 +1051,9 @@ config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION depends on EXPERT help - Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and - data elimination with the linker by compiling with - -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, and linking with - --gc-sections. + Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with + the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, + and linking with --gc-sections. This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel code and static data, particularly for small configs and