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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:46:38 +0530 From: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com> To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, "Tony Lindgren" <tony@...mide.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections On Wednesday 02 January 2013 06:19 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.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. Thanks Rusty. I'll drop this patch from my series. -Vineet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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