Re: [-mm PATCH] kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols

Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-04T21:36:23Z

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:35:32 +0000
Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote:

>
> When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names,
> kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak
> symbol.
>
> This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols
> last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime
> isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed.
>

what user of this api is affected by this?

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