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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] symbols: prefix static symbols with
 their source file names
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:54:00 +0000
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On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 06:55 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 02.11.15 at 14:47, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 05:49 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > This requires adjustments to the tool generating the symbol table and
> > > its as well as nm's invocation.
> > > 
> > > Note: Not warning about duplicate symbols in the EFI case for now, as
> > > a binutils bug causes misnamed file name entries to appear in EFI
> > > binaries' symbol tables when the file name is longer than 18 chars.
> > > (Not doing so also avoids other duplicates getting printed twice.)
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> > > ---
> > > v2: Also special case file names with directory part (along with
> > >     object ones). Mirror xen-syms linking changes to ARM, but for now
> > >     without generating warnings.
> > 
> > Thanks for taking care of ARM. I assume "without generating warnings"
> > differs from the x86 behaviour? Is there some followup which us ARM
> > folks
> > ought to be looking into making?
> 
> Not right now I would say. As mentioned elsewhere, without
> xSplice as a goal I don't see much use in the having those warnings.

OK, thanks.