Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 19:30:20 EST


On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:36:23AM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> However, I spoke too soon. There actually is a legitimate use for
> EXPORT_SYMBOL() in a lib-y object, e.g. lib/dump_stack.c. This provides a
> default implementation for dump_stack(). Most archs provide their own
> implementation (and EXPORT_SYMBOL() it), and in this case we definitely
> want the default version in lib to be thrown away, including its
> EXPORT_SYMBOL. So the appended patch throws false positives and thus can
> not be applied.

.. and should be replaced by CONFIG_GENERIC_DUMP_STACK or
__HAVE_ARCH_DUMP_STACK or something similar

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