Re: [PATCH] modpost: Fix modpost's license checking V3

[Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>]

On 03/23/12 19:04, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 07/13/11 23:51, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote:
>> The commit f02e8a6 sorts symbols placing each of them in its own elf section.
>> The sorting and merging into the canonical sections are done by the linker.
>> Unfortunately modpost to generate Module.symvers file parses vmlinux
> 
> Yet another unfortunately: modpost parses vmlinux.o instead of vmlinux (vmlinux
> does not yet exist at this point of the build).  vmlinux.o also does not have
> the many sections sorted and merged into the canonical sections.  As a result,
> the Module.symvers created my modpost incorrectly reports the license of all

                             ^^^ s/my/by/

> exports as "(unknown)".
> 
> Can you fix this also please?
> 
> 
>> (already linked) and all modules object files (which aren't linked yet).
>> These aren't sanitized by the linker yet. That breaks modpost that can't
>> detect license properly for modules. This patch makes modpost aware of
>> the new exported symbols structure.
>>
>> Thanks to Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> and Anders Kaseorg
>> <andersk@ksplice.com> for providing useful suggestions about code.
>>
>> This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
>>
>> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
>> ---
>>  scripts/mod/modpost.c |   29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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> 
> -Frank Rowand
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