Dear Mr. Frysinger,
2011/5/11 Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx>:
[...]
>>> this breaks symbol prefixed arches (like Blackfin):
>>> ÂCC Â Â Âkernel/softirq.o
>>> /tmp/ccp3A6LU.s: Assembler messages:
>>> /tmp/ccp3A6LU.s:3734: Error: symbol `___ksymtab__local_bh_enable' is
>>> already defined
[...]
>>> name. Âso rather than "__", use "+".
>
> Sorry I don't think that is a good choice from a long term point of
> view. What do you think to add MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX to section names
> instead? In this way symbol and section names should always be
> different also on symbol prefixed archs (which are blackfin and
> h8300).
I'm thinking to something like this:
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 98ddaf0..c4aa266 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ struct module_use {
extern void *__crc_##sym __attribute__((weak)); \
static const unsigned long __kcrctab_##sym \
__used \
- __attribute__((section("___kcrctab" sec "__"#sym), unused)) \
+ __attribute__((section("___kcrctab" sec "___" MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
#sym), unused)) \
= (unsigned long) &__crc_##sym;
#else
#define __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec)
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ struct module_use {
= MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #sym; \
static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym \
__used \
- __attribute__((section("___ksymtab" sec "__"#sym), unused)) \
+ __attribute__((section("___ksymtab" sec "___" MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
#sym), unused)) \
= { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym }
#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym) \
Could you try this, please?
Thank you very much!
Ciao,
Alessio
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