From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268114AbUHQFMR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:12:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268115AbUHQFMR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:12:17 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:12233 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268114AbUHQFMF (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:12:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:10:17 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: jdike@addtoit.com, kai@germaschewski.name, sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 - Fix UML build Message-Id: <20040816221017.018b0ef9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040817050642.GK11200@holomorphy.com> References: <200408120414.i7C4EtJd010481@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20040815150635.5ac4f5df.akpm@osdl.org> <200408170602.i7H62LNj019126@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20040817050642.GK11200@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III 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.