linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] modpost: more complete endianness fixing

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Message-ID: <20090503194848.GA32400@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sun, 3 May 2009 21:48:48 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Anders Kaseorg <andersk@....EDU>, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: more complete endianness fixing

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 02:07:35PM -0400, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> Fix endianness of all the fields in the ELF header and section headers, 
> not just some of them.
> 
> The missing TO_NATIVE(sechdrs[i].sh_flags) was causing many “unexpected 
> non-allocatable section” warnings when cross-compiling for an architecture 
> with a different endianness.

Thanks Anders.
Makes sense for the powerpc case.
But I cannot see it fixing the warnings Jean sees.

Jean?

	Sam
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