Re: Simplify vmlinux link

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 17:49:40 EST


On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:45:14PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Following two patches simplifies the foo used to link
> vmlinux to a level where it is maintainable again.
>
> The patches remove the KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS stuff and
> move the vmlinux link stuff to a small shell script.
>
> This need some testing as I have not even been able
> to boot test this as my dev box is down.
> So help and feedback is really appreciated.
>
> Full patch below - I will post sepearate patches as follow-up.
>
> Patches will be pushed out to kbuild-next only when I get
> some positive reponse that it boots.

This breaks um build btw.
The 2/2 patch contains an attempt to fix it but I could not
manage to tech ld how to find -lunit - despite that it worked with gcc.

Sam
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