On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Brian Gerst wrote:
> This patch moves the module structure to the generated .mod.c file,
> instead of compiling it into each object and relying on the linker to
> include it only once.
Yeah, it's something I though about doing, but I was not sure. I think
it's up to Rusty to comment ;)
It will need an associated change to module_init_tools.
Another comment:
diff -urN linux-2.5.61-bk1/scripts/modpost.c linux/scripts/modpost.c
--- linux-2.5.61-bk1/scripts/modpost.c 2003-02-16 10:06:35.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/scripts/modpost.c 2003-02-16 14:10:19.000000000 -0500
@@ -287,6 +287,10 @@
/* undefined symbol */
if (ELF_ST_BIND(sym->st_info) != STB_GLOBAL)
break;
+
+ /* ignore __this_module */
+ if (!strcmp(symname, "__this_module"))
+ break;
s = alloc_symbol(symname);
/* add to list */
Is that necessary? __this_module shouldn't be unresolved, so this case
should never be hit AFAICS.
--Kai
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