From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
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
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:45:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040817144527.GA7286@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040816221017.018b0ef9.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:10:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.
Please note that the functionality is moved to scripts/mksysmap,
so Russell's original ldchk needs to be backed out.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-17 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-12 4:14 [PATCH 1/3] 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 - Fix UML build Jeff Dike
2004-08-15 22:06 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-17 6:02 ` Jeff Dike
2004-08-17 5:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 5:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-17 14:45 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2004-08-17 12:51 ` Russell King
2004-08-17 5:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-17 19:15 ` Jeff Dike
2004-08-17 18:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-18 2:58 ` Jeff Dike
2004-08-18 18:28 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-08-17 8:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-17 18:17 ` Jeff Dike
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