On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:51:16 +0200, Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The commit f02e8a6 sorts symbols placing each of them in its own elf section. > The sorting and merging into the canonical sections are done by the linker. > Unfortunately modpost to generate Module.symvers file parses vmlinux > (already linked) and all modules object files (which aren't linked yet). > These aren't sanitized by the linker yet. That breaks modpost that can't > detect license properly for modules. This patch makes modpost aware of > the new exported symbols structure. > > Thanks to Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@xxxxxxxxx> and Anders Kaseorg > <andersk@xxxxxxxxxxx> for providing useful suggestions about code. > > This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum. Applied. Thanks! Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
