linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mod/file2alias: make modpost compile on darwin again

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Message-ID: <4F45DC99.1050405@biessmann.de>
Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:28:41 +0100
From:	Andreas Bießmann <andreas@...ssmann.de>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	Andreas Bießmann <andreas@...ssmann.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	Jochen Friedrich <jochen@...am.de>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mod/file2alias: make modpost compile on darwin again


On 23.02.12 00:08, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:55:35 +0100, Andreas Bießmann <andreas@...ssmann.de> wrote:
>> commit e49ce14150c64b29a8dd211df785576fa19a9858 breaks cross compiling
>> the linux kernel on darwin hosts.
>> This fix introduce some minimal glue to adopt linker section handling
>> for darwin hosts.
> 
> Really?

Yes.

> Yes, I assumed an ELF host.  There's a portable way of doing this, but
> it's damn ugly (see http://ccodearchive.net/info/autodata.html).

I stumbled over some other code snippet [1] when searching for a solution.

> Oh, and checkpatch.pl is wrong, the code was fine.

Sorry for that. I was running checkpatch.pl as dutiful patch submitter
and that complained. Should I provide another version with 'checkpatch'
adoptions changed back?

> If noone has strong opinions about this, I'll apply it.

Would be great. I guess this is a rare case (cross compiling on darwin
host) but at least I and some of my colleagues do it from time to time.

Andreas
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[1]
http://google-perftools.googlecode.com/svn/!svn/bc/48/trunk/src/base/basictypes.h
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