From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:36134 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbYFDVta (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:49:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:50:12 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: Simplify vmlinux link Message-ID: <20080604215012.GD13032@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080604214514.GA13032@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080604214514.GA13032@uranus.ravnborg.org> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: LKML , linux-kbuild On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:45:14PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Following two patches simplifies the foo used to link > vmlinux to a level where it is maintainable again. > > The patches remove the KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS stuff and > move the vmlinux link stuff to a small shell script. > > This need some testing as I have not even been able > to boot test this as my dev box is down. > So help and feedback is really appreciated. > > Full patch below - I will post sepearate patches as follow-up. > > Patches will be pushed out to kbuild-next only when I get > some positive reponse that it boots. This breaks um build btw. The 2/2 patch contains an attempt to fix it but I could not manage to tech ld how to find -lunit - despite that it worked with gcc. Sam