Re: [PATCH] fix verify_export_symbols()

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Mon Mar 17 2008 - 20:35:42 EST


On Tuesday 18 March 2008 09:36:04 Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008 20:04:17 you wrote:
> > When the newer export flavors were added, it was apparently forgotten
> > to add respective code here.
> > In order to not double the (source) size of the function, add some
> > abstraction to reduce code duplication.
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> Actually, the others did exist, they just weren't checked.

No, my bad, you're right (GPL-only existed, but they were covered already).
The problem with this is that we'll get a bogus unused warning in the case of
doing a __find_symbol on an unused symbol.

It's time for a general cleanup of the __find_symbol logic. I'll post when
it's done.

Thanks!
Rusty.
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