Re: [PATCH 1/2] libfdt: Add version.lds file

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:47:53 +1100
David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> > The hard-coded list is pretty simple, at the risk of missing things.
> 
> I'm actually not too wirried about missing things.  If we miss
> something, it's pretty easy to fix.  It probably would be a good idea
> to make the testsuite build against the shared version of the library
> to verify that at least the functions exercised there are correctly
> exposed.

That's a good idea.  I'll see what I can do there.

> I'm marginally more worried about an overbroad wildcard including
> something we didn't really want exposed.  I think the versioning
> script needs a:
> 	local:
> 		*
> after the global list to to inhibit exposing everything else.

Ah, yes.  It would be good for someone with more of a clue than me to
vet the list I have in the file right now, and make sure I didn't
include/omit things that shouldn't/should be there.  Once that is done,
I can do the local thing.

josh