Re: [PATCH 6/8] verbs: Fill in the libibverbs.map file

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On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 07:01:52PM +0200, Yishai Hadas wrote:
> On 12/6/2017 1:17 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Several of the 'latest' verbs are missing from the map file.
> 
> Which 'latest' verbs are you referring to ? quite hard to follow post the
> sort.

Pretty much all the ones listed as '+' in - 'latest' means they are
using LATEST_SYMVER_FUNC

> >The linker does the right thing anyhow since they are tagged with the
> >.symver assembler directive, but let us list them anyhow so that the
> >map file is a complete list of symbols.
> 
> If the linker does the work why do we really need to maintain it now and in
> the future ?

Technicaly all symbols should be in the map file. I would view the
linker exposing symbols not in the map file as some weird behavior we
shouldn't rely on.

Jason
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