Re: [patch] 2.4.6-pre3 unresolved symbol do_softirq

David S. Miller
2001-06-13T14:16:00Z

Keith Owens writes:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:06:42 -0700 (PDT),
> "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >Keith Owens writes:
> > > OTOH if any *.S code is compiled into a module then all symbols it
> > > refers to must be EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS().
> >
> >Why not just add --include modversions.h to the gcc command line to
> >build it, why wouldn't this work?
>
> Assembler code is not hooked into the generic module symbol version
> handling. Every .S rule is unique and I'm not going to change every
> one.

Why not make a ASM_CPP_DEFINES that all those rules use?

Surely this is a smaller hammer than making them all NOVERS(), I
think all of these workarounds with novers for assembly are silly and
are merely looking for a solution which nobody (perhaps except me :-)
is bothering to look for.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com