From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Force build error on undefined symbols
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:35:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040410153519.C4221@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040410142401.GA2439@mars.ravnborg.org>; from sam@ravnborg.org on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 04:24:01PM +0200
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 04:24:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >
> > Therefore, I propose the following patch to detect undefined symbols
> > in the final image and force an error if this is the case.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Do we really want to do this for all architectures?
> You could use something like the attached to restrict it to arm.
Unfortunately, some people got it into their heads to use the top
level vmlinux directly, so this wouldn't always catch the problem.
It really needs to be done immediately after vmlinux is generated
to ensure that all cases are caught.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-10 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-10 12:10 [RFC] Force build error on undefined symbols Russell King
2004-04-10 14:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-04-10 14:35 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-04-10 17:28 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-04-10 19:08 ` Russell King
2004-04-10 19:33 ` Brian Gerst
2004-04-10 20:19 ` Russell King
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