Re: [PATCH 1/3] 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 - Fix UML build

Andrew Morton
2004-08-17T05:12:17Z

William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:02:21AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > The undefined symbol checking is continuing to cause UML pain. This time,
> > it picked up a bunch of 'w' symbols as undefined. They were present in the
> > 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 vmlinux and caused no problems for the final link, so I added
> > them as a second special case to mksysmap (and I just noticed that I forgot
> > a comment there - I can submit a patch for that if there's demand for one).
>
> Likewise for sparc64; the 'w' symbols are showing up as 'undefined'
> there too. Probably because [^w] isn't behaving as expected.
>

Sigh. That patch is causing a ton of grief. But Russell's reasons for
needing it on ARM were solid, and it is a bit weird for any architecture to
have undefined symbols in vmlinux. I guess we persist.