[uml-devel] Re: [PATCH]Modules support in 2.6: reaching the complete fix

[Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>]

blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it said:
> 1) user_ksyms.c bundles a copy of the EXPORT_SYMBOL definition, but
> it's  outdated; I've inserted the new one(with appropriate changes,
> i.e.  s/CONFIG_/UML_CONFIG/) and it works. This is attached. 

Yeah, this is nasty, but I couldn't think of any way of handling this without
just copying stuff.

> 2) then, the UML build system is broken for USER_OBJS.

This is separate from the module problem.  It still needs fixing though.

> Instead of specifying the rule each time, wouldn't it be good
> something  such(in pseudo-code, I know there is only foreach in
> make-language)?
>
> for i in USER_OBJS; do
>   CFLAGS_$i+=USER_CFLAGS done 

It would be nice just to have something in one Makefile, like arch/um/Makefile,
which makes this work.  I haven't looked at whether this is possible.

> And for this, I cannot help because I've not enough  experience with
> link scripts(I've been able to learn the syntax, but I don't  know the
> reason why some section missing in the i386 appear in the UML  script;
> some are from libc, but I don't know which ones).

The ones you deleted are all kernel sections.

				Jeff



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