Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:45:59 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | -mm: please drop h8300 kallsyms patch |
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Please drop h8300-kallsyms-exclude-local-symbols.patch from mm for now.
I'm all in favour of its intent, cutting local .Lfoo symbols out of the the symbol table. But at present it's cutting out all .symbols - which is very unfriendly to powerpc, whose every function is a .symbol! The undotted symbol being the descriptor that points to the function.
My 2.6.27-rc5 powerpc System.map doesn't actually contain any .Lsymbols, but I expect someone else's does: I doubt excluding .Lsymbols is the right answer, though it would be an improvement.
Maybe Paulo or Sam has a grasp on what the different architectures' toolchains do, and can suggest the right patch.
Thanks, Hugh
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