[PATCH] 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 - kbuild wierdness with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 15:00:56 EST


It looks like a buggy comparison down in the guts of
kbuild-export-type-enhancement-to-modpostc.patch - it's doing
something really odd when it hits a EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx>
---
Proposed fix (with an added debugging warning Just In Case:

--- linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm1/scripts/mod/modpost.c.whatdied 2006-05-15 13:50:13.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm1/scripts/mod/modpost.c 2006-05-15 14:52:13.000000000 -0400
@@ -1194,12 +1194,14 @@
*d != '\0')
goto fail;

- if ((strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL")))
+ if ((strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL") == 0))
export_type = 1;
else if(strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL") == 0)
export_type = 0;
- else
+ else {
+ warn("Odd symbol export=%s symname=%s modname=%s\n",export,symname,modname);
goto fail;
+ }

if (!(mod = find_module(modname))) {
if (is_vmlinux(modname)) {


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