From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] Rename the parainstructions symbols to be consistent with the others Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:03:17 +1000 Message-ID: <1175652197.12230.563.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070404010655.400913479@goop.org> <20070404011453.598418421@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070404011453.598418421@goop.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, lkml List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 18:06 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > plain text document attachment (fix-parainstructions-name.patch) > The other symbols used to delineate the alt-instructions sections have > the form __foo/__foo_end. Rename parainstructions to match. OK, I guess this is an area where the kernel has its own standard. (__start_ and __stop_ are the symbols automatically inserted by ld if the section name is straight alpha-numeric. It's actually pretty cool for code where you want section boundaries without writing a linker script). Cheers, Rusty.