Re: "Inconsistent kallsyms data" error

[Michal Marek]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:18:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So for some unknown reason I'm hitting this on just one particular
> machine, and it's *very* annoying.
> 
> It's annoying for three reasons:
> 
>  - it's breaking the build (duh)
> 
>  - the error is printed out to stderr, so you don't even *see* it as
> an error if you redirect the normal messages somewhere else (like any
> sane person, ie me, does)

I'm committing the attached patch to kbuild.git#kbuild.


>  - when the error happens, it doesn't show *what* went wrong, and in
> fact it explicitly cleans up all the files that could show what
> happened.

Right, the files need to be preserved somehow. At the same
time, we can't leave the final files there, to not mark the link as
successful. I will have a look.

No idea about the actual kallsyms bug yet, sorry.

Michal