On Wednesday 05 December 2007 09:31:23 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > * Arjan van de Ven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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. > > > > what user of this api is affected by this? > > grep -r kallsyms_lookup * does a pretty good job at it ;)
Yeah, we discussed this before and agreed it was best to show strong symbols before weak ones. Cheers, Rusty. -- 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/
