Re: [PATCH 2/2] Replace the linear search with a binary search for locate the symbols

[Rusty Russell]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:54:57 -0700, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > This work was supported by a hardware donation from the CE Linux Forum.
> 
> Patch looks good to me. SORT is a nice trick, too bad it won't 
> work for the main kernel.

Why not?

If it's just that some linkers don't support SORT, can we work around it
and call sort() of the symbols in our kernel init?

Thanks,
Rusty.
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