On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 19:15 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > It's probably true, but the way it's done today gave us CONFIG_MODVERSIONS > and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, which would break when turning EXPORT_SYMBOL into a > simple __attribute__().
ELF can do symbol versioning too. But I don't really see a simple way to make normal ELF linking work with a kernel like that. The vmlinux ELF file is long gone by the time the kernel boots -- it needs its own mechanism for managing its symbols anyway; its own internal dynamic linker. I suppose you _could_ make it work from the standard ELF linkage but I don't think it'd be fun. ObMODVERSIONS: Forgot to mention that my makefile hacks for --combine break that completely. It tries to preprocess all the files together with 'gcc -E -D__GENKSYMS__ *.c' -- and you can't do that. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
