It currently does not seem to make a difference anymore, except by
increasing compressed kernel image size
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@45385 
3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-
a3cf2f4a3e73
 From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
 
-use -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections --sort-section=name
+use -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections
 
 In combination with kernel symbol export stripping this significantly reduces
 the kernel image size. Used on both ARM and MIPS architectures.
  cflags-y                      += -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe
  cflags-y                      += -msoft-float
 -LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib
-+LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections --sort-section=name
++LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections
  KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE          += -mlong-calls
  KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE          += -mlong-calls
  
  LDFLAGS_vmlinux       += --be8
  LDFLAGS_MODULE        += --be8
  endif
-+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --gc-sections --sort-section=name
++LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --gc-sections
  
  OBJCOPYFLAGS  :=-O binary -R .comment -S
  GZFLAGS               :=-9
 
 -cflags-y                      += -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe
 +cflags-y                      += -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe -mno-branch-likely
  cflags-y                      += -msoft-float
- LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections --sort-section=name
+ LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections
  KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE          += -mlong-calls
 
 @@ -90,8 +90,13 @@ all-$(CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT)+= vmlin
  cflags-y                      += -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe -mno-branch-likely
  cflags-y                      += -msoft-float
- LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections --sort-section=name
+ LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections
 +ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
  KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE          += -mlong-calls
  KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE          += -mlong-calls
 
 From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
 
-use -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections --sort-section=name
+use -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections
 
 In combination with kernel symbol export stripping this significantly reduces
 the kernel image size. Used on both ARM and MIPS architectures.
  cflags-y                      += -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe
  cflags-y                      += -msoft-float
 -LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib
-+LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections --sort-section=name
++LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections
  KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE          += -mlong-calls
  KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE          += -mlong-calls
  
  LDFLAGS_vmlinux       += --be8
  LDFLAGS_MODULE        += --be8
  endif
-+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --gc-sections --sort-section=name
++LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --gc-sections
  
  OBJCOPYFLAGS  :=-O binary -R .comment -S
  GZFLAGS               :=-9
 
 -cflags-y                      += -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe
 +cflags-y                      += -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe -mno-branch-likely
  cflags-y                      += -msoft-float
- LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections --sort-section=name
+ LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections
  KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE          += -mlong-calls
 
 @@ -90,8 +90,13 @@ all-$(CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT)+= vmlin
  cflags-y                      += -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe -mno-branch-likely
  cflags-y                      += -msoft-float
- LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections --sort-section=name
+ LDFLAGS_vmlinux                       += -G 0 -static -n -nostdlib --gc-sections
 +ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
  KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE          += -mlong-calls
  KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE          += -mlong-calls