Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:17:46 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [-mm PATCH] kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols |
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On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:35:32 +0000 Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote:
> When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names, > kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak > symbol. > > This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols > last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime > isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed. > > Another side effect is that the symbols get sorted by address, too. So, > even if future binutils version have some bug in "nm" that makes it fail > to correctly sort symbols by address, the kernel won't be affected by this. > >
I don't understand the reason for making this change.
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