Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:07:22 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3] kallsyms, tracing: output more proper symbol name |
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:40:13 +0100 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> > This patch puts symbols like "__irqentry_text_start" to the second > > aliased symbols. And a more proper symbol name becomes the first. > > > > Aliased symbols mostly come from linker script. The solution is > > guessing "is this symbol defined in linker script", the symbols > > defined in linker script will not become the first aliased symbol. > > > > And if symbols are found to be equal in this "linker script provided" > > criteria, symbols are sorted by the number of prefix underscores. > > > > Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> > > Looks good to me. > > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
So... do we need this in 2.6.29?
I'm about to jump on a plane and shall be a bit intermittent for a week.
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