PATCH: allow 2.6 to build on old old setups

Alan Cox
2003-07-28T00:42:07Z

(Mikael Pettersson)
diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux-2.6.0-test2/scripts/modpost.c linux-2.6.0-test2-ac1/scripts/modpost.c
--- linux-2.6.0-test2/scripts/modpost.c 2003-07-10 21:05:39.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.0-test2-ac1/scripts/modpost.c 2003-07-23 15:37:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -296,12 +296,14 @@
/* ignore global offset table */
if (strcmp(symname, "_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_") == 0)
break;
+#ifdef STT_REGISTER
if (info->hdr->e_machine == EM_SPARC ||
info->hdr->e_machine == EM_SPARCV9) {
/* Ignore register directives. */
if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) == STT_REGISTER)
break;
}
+#endif

if (memcmp(symname, MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX,
strlen(MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX)) == 0) {
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