Re: [PATCH 05/10] kbuild: sort the list of symbols exported by the kernel (__ksymtab)

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On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 09:28 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:27 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >   
> >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:23:20 am Alex Chiang wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi Alan, Rusty,
> >>>       
> >> Hi Alex,
> >>
> >>     
> >>> In the meantime, while Alan is deciding the proper way to fix
> >>> this, would it be possible to drop the offending patch series
> >>> from linux-next?
> >>>       
> >> Done.  That takes the pressure off Alan, and makes sure he has time to get
> >> it right.
> >>     
> >
> > That probably suits us on parisc too.  I just checked out our build in
> > linux-next: we don't pass __modpost ... it looks like we have all the
> > module symbols undefined.  Will investigate more.
> >
> > James
> >   
> 
> I think parisc wants P'printk where ia64 uses @fptr(printk).
> 
> It may also need ".import printk,code" or similar.

I think if you have to make modpost architecture specific, there's
something a bit wrong in the patch series.

I can confirm that reverting this particular patch allows the parisc
build to work again.  It still won't boot because module symbols aren't
resolved.

James


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