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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 - Fix UML build
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:10:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:02:21AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > > The undefined symbol checking is continuing to cause UML pain. This time,
> > > it picked up a bunch of 'w' symbols as undefined. They were present in the
> > > 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 vmlinux and caused no problems for the final link, so I added
> > > them as a second special case to mksysmap (and I just noticed that I forgot
> > > a comment there - I can submit a patch for that if there's demand for one).
> >
> > Likewise for sparc64; the 'w' symbols are showing up as 'undefined'
> > there too. Probably because [^w] isn't behaving as expected.
> >
>
> Sigh. That patch is causing a ton of grief. But Russell's reasons for
> needing it on ARM were solid, and it is a bit weird for any architecture to
> have undefined symbols in vmlinux. I guess we persist.
Please note that the functionality is moved to scripts/mksysmap,
so Russell's original ldchk needs to be backed out.

Sam
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