Re: [PATCH 1/3] 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 - Fix UML build

[Andrew Morton]

William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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