linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME

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Message-ID: <11382.1319479512@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:05:12 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	David Ahern <daahern@...co.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:12:23 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo said:

> Fglrx propietary driver has symbol names over 128 chars (:S). This
> breaks the function kallsyms__parse.

Well, that explains why they haven't upstreamed the driver, it will never
pass checkpatch's line-lenght check :)

But at some point you really need to just tell the vendors to put down
the crack pipe.

(What *are* the symbols? C++ mangled function names?)

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