Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
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> 
> nitpicking :
> 
>> 	.section __discard,"a",@progbits
> 
> could we simply declare a 
> 
>      .section __discard,"",@progbits instead ?
> 
> I think this should remove the need to tweak the linker script, since
> the section would not be allocated.
> 

The allocation flag is a loader property, not a linker property.  It 
would still be manifest in the vmlinux file; I think this is 
undesirable.  Perhaps not a big deal, but neither is adding a /DISCARD/ 
statement to the linker script:

/DISCARD/ : { *(__discard) }

	-hpa
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