Re: [PATCH] modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections

[Vineet Gupta]

On Friday 28 December 2012 02:18 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 04:17:20PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> ARC relocatable object files contain one/more .gnu.linkonce.arcextmap.*
>> sections (collated by kernel/vmlinux.lds into .arcextmap in final link).
>> This section is used by debuggers to display the extension instructions
>> and need-not be loaded by target (hence !SHF_ALLOC)
>>
>> The final kernel binary only needs .arcextmap entry in modpost's ignore
>> list (section_white_list[]). However when building modules, modpost scans
>> each object file individually, hence tripping on non-aggregated
>> .gnu.linkonce.arcextmap.* entries as well.
> 
> The list exist for this particular purpose.
> So acked.
> 
>>
>> Thus need for the 2 entires !
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> 	Sam
> 

Thx,
-Vineet
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