linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Fix the error message about unresolvable ambiguity

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1603092159090.3656@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2016 21:59:30 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
cc:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>,
	Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Fix the error message about unresolvable
 ambiguity

On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Petr Mladek wrote:

> klp_find_callback() stops the search when sympos is not defined and
> a second symbol of the same name is found. It means that the current
> error message about the unresolvable ambiguity always prints "(2 matches)".
> 
> Let's remove this information. The total number of occurrences is
> not much helpful. The author of the patch still must put a non-trivial
> effort into searching the right position in the object file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>

I've fixed the grammar as suggested by Josh and applied to 
for-4.6/upstream.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs