On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:25:18 +0200, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 14.7.2011 08:51, Alessio Igor Bogani 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. > > > > Reported-by: Jan Beulich<jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani<abogani@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > scripts/mod/modpost.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > > 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > Rusty, will you take this patch or should I apply it to kbuild-2.6.git? I took it. 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
