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 <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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