On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:35:32 +0000 Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names, > kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak > symbol. > > This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols > last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime > isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed. > > Another side effect is that the symbols get sorted by address, too. So, > even if future binutils version have some bug in "nm" that makes it fail > to correctly sort symbols by address, the kernel won't be affected by this. > > I don't understand the reason for making this change. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
