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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.6-pre3 unresolved symbol do_softirq 
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:06:42 -0700 (PDT), 
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>Keith Owens writes:
> > OTOH if any *.S code is compiled into a module then all symbols it
> > refers to must be EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS().
>
>Why not just add --include modversions.h to the gcc command line to
>build it, why wouldn't this work?

Assembler code is not hooked into the generic module symbol version
handling.  Every .S rule is unique and I'm not going to change every
one.