Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modpost: Fix modpost's license checking V3 | Date | Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:08:29 +0930 |
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:51:16 +0200, Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> wrote: > The commit f02e8a6 sorts symbols placing each of them in its own elf section. > The sorting and merging into the canonical sections are done by the linker. > Unfortunately modpost to generate Module.symvers file parses vmlinux > (already linked) and all modules object files (which aren't linked yet). > These aren't sanitized by the linker yet. That breaks modpost that can't > detect license properly for modules. This patch makes modpost aware of > the new exported symbols structure. > > Thanks to Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> and Anders Kaseorg > <andersk@ksplice.com> for providing useful suggestions about code. > > This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
Applied.
Thanks! Rusty.
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