From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268196AbUHQMpa (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:45:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268200AbUHQMpa (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:45:30 -0400 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:14993 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268196AbUHQMp2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:45:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:45:27 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Andrew Morton Cc: William Lee Irwin III , 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: <20040817144527.GA7286@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , jdike@addtoit.com, kai@germaschewski.name, sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200408120414.i7C4EtJd010481@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20040815150635.5ac4f5df.akpm@osdl.org> <200408170602.i7H62LNj019126@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20040817050642.GK11200@holomorphy.com> <20040816221017.018b0ef9.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040816221017.018b0ef9.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:10:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. Please note that the functionality is moved to scripts/mksysmap, so Russell's original ldchk needs to be backed out. Sam