Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Eliminate most of sparc_ksyms_*.c

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On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 01:33:39PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Julian Calaby" <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 08:23:41 +1100
> 
> > My stance on this is: as this functionality that is defined in
> > assembler, having nasty C code is acceptable - providing that it's
> > documented. (which we could improve somewhat)
> 
> Note, we can probably do this automatically without having
> to define a symbol exporting macro for assembler code.
> 
> Just add some annotation to the assembler files, then
> some script or similar processes the *.S files looking
> for the symbol export annotations and uses that to
> generate the ksyms.c file.

Arnd Bergman once posted a patchset that allow us to do the export in .S files.

Google for "add support for exporting symbols from .S files"

Could we resurface this patchset?

Arnd?

	Sam
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