Re: [RFC] ARM binutils feature churn causing kernel problems

Rusty Russell
2004-10-05T23:00:54Z

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 23:14, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:57:15PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > Why don't you pass s to is_arm_mapping_symbol and have it do the same
> > thing as you've done in get_ksymbol?
>
> "sym_entry" is not an ELF symtab structure - it's a parsed version
> of the `nm' output, and as such does not contain the symbol type nor
> binding information.

I believe that Paulo (CC'd) ended up with a patch which included the
actual type information in /proc/kallsyms. Paulo, what's the status of
that patch?

Rusty.
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