On Tue, 04 Oct, at 11:34:31AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > These relocations are harmless, since the debug ones are only > interpreted by the debugger, and the ones generated by > EXPORT_SYMBOL(sort) will never be referenced, since the symbols they > contain are either renamed to __efistub_xxx (arm64), or they are not > part of the kernel proper (arm) > > So both cases are false positives, but the diagnostic is important, > and so breaking the build is appropriate for any other absolute > relocation that may appear. > > The effect of the patch is not that the diagnostic is ignored, but > that these relocations are not generated in the first place (-g0) or > removed explicitly (ksymtab/krcrctab+sort) rather than via a wildcard. > So other than not breaking the build, this patch should have no user > observeable differences. Thanks Ard, sounds reasonable. Feel free to take this through whichever tree you think is best. Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
