linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3] kallsyms, tracing: output more proper symbol name

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Message-Id: <20090313130722.1d92ad80.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:07:22 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	laijs@...fujitsu.com, pmarques@...popie.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	srostedt@...hat.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] kallsyms, tracing: output more proper symbol name

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:40:13 +0100
Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.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@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.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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