Re: [PATCH 05/10] kbuild: sort the list of symbols exported by thekernel (__ksymtab)

[Alan Jenkins]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 09:28 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>   
> > James Bottomley wrote:
> >     
> > > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:27 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:23:20 am Alex Chiang wrote:
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > > > Hi Alan, Rusty,
> > > > >       
> > > > >           
> > > > Hi Alex,
> > > >
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > > > In the meantime, while Alan is deciding the proper way to fix
> > > > > this, would it be possible to drop the offending patch series
> > > > > from linux-next?
> > > > >       
> > > > >           
> > > > Done.  That takes the pressure off Alan, and makes sure he has time to get
> > > > it right.
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > That probably suits us on parisc too.  I just checked out our build in
> > > linux-next: we don't pass __modpost ... it looks like we have all the
> > > module symbols undefined.  Will investigate more.
> > >
> > > James
> > >   
> > >       
> > I think parisc wants P'printk where ia64 uses @fptr(printk).
> >
> > It may also need ".import printk,code" or similar.
> >     
>
> I think if you have to make modpost architecture specific, there's
> something a bit wrong in the patch series.
>
> I can confirm that reverting this particular patch allows the parisc
> build to work again.  It still won't boot because module symbols aren't
> resolved.
>
> James
>   

Yes, the series as a whole relies on that patch.  Rusty pulled the 
series from linux-next (thanks rusty!).

I'm working on alternatives now.  I can't promise to avoid architecture 
specific code, but if it's necessary then I understand I have to arrange 
to test it myself :-).  Sorry for the inconvenience caused by 
"arch-independent assembly code" that wasn't.

Alan
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