Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections | Date | Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:19:13 +1030 |
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Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 04:17:20PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> ARC relocatable object files contain one/more .gnu.linkonce.arcextmap.* >> sections (collated by kernel/vmlinux.lds into .arcextmap in final link). >> This section is used by debuggers to display the extension instructions >> and need-not be loaded by target (hence !SHF_ALLOC) >> >> The final kernel binary only needs .arcextmap entry in modpost's ignore >> list (section_white_list[]). However when building modules, modpost scans >> each object file individually, hence tripping on non-aggregated >> .gnu.linkonce.arcextmap.* entries as well. > > The list exist for this particular purpose. > So acked.
Applied, thanks!
Cheers, Rusty.
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