Re: [PATCH 0/4] Speed up the symbols' resolution process V4

2011-05-11 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
Dear Mr. Frysinger, 2011/5/11 Mike Frysinger vapier@gmail.com: [...] Sorry I don't think that is a good choice from a long term point of view. What do you think to add MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX to section names instead? In this way symbol and section names should always be different also on

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Speed up the symbols' resolution process V4

2011-05-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:25, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote: 2011/5/11 Mike Frysinger: Sorry I don't think that is a good choice from a long term point of view. What do you think to add MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX to section names instead? In this way symbol and section names should always be different

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Speed up the symbols' resolution process V4

2011-05-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:19, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote: name.  so rather than __, use +. Sorry I don't think that is a good choice from a long term point of view. What do you think to add MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX to section names instead? In this way symbol and section names should always be

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Speed up the symbols' resolution process V4

2011-05-11 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
Dear Mr. Frysinger, 2011/5/11 Alessio Igor Bogani abog...@kernel.org: [...] this breaks symbol prefixed arches (like Blackfin):  CC      kernel/softirq.o /tmp/ccp3A6LU.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccp3A6LU.s:3734: Error: symbol `___ksymtab__local_bh_enable' is already defined [...] name.  so

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Speed up the symbols' resolution process V4

2011-05-11 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
Dear Mr. Frysinger, 2011/5/11 Mike Frysinger vapier@gmail.com: this breaks symbol prefixed arches (like Blackfin):  CC      kernel/softirq.o /tmp/ccp3A6LU.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccp3A6LU.s:3734: Error: symbol `___ksymtab__local_bh_enable' is already defined make[1]: ***