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

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:54:10 am Alan Jenkins wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:00:50AM +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> >   
> >> Rusty Russell wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:36:17 pm Alan Jenkins wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> +/*
> >>>> + * We use CPP macros since they are more familiar than assembly macros.
> >>>> + * Note that CPP macros eat newlines, so each statement must be terminated
> >>>> + * by a semicolon.
> >>>> + */
> >>>> +
> >>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
> >>>> +#define __SYM(sym) _##sym
> >>>> +#else
> >>>> +#define __SYM(sym) sym
> >>>> +#endif
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Ideally, you would used MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX here, but of course it's a
> >>> string.  I don't think Kconfig can do arbitrary identifiers, so we can't
> >>> make CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX empty or _.
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps clarify it to a bool CONFIG_HAVE_MODULE_UNDERSCORE_PREFIX then,
> >>> since that's what you're assuming here?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Rusty.
> >>>       
> >> I made the same assumption in patch 4.  The arch defines  
> >> CONFIG_HAVE_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which then causes init/Kconfig to define  
> >> CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX="_".
> >>
> >> Mike suggested that I hack kbuild instead, to do something like
> >>
> >> unquote = ...
> >> AFLAGS_.tmp_export-asm.o += -DSYMBOL_PREFIX=$(unquote CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX)
> >>
> >> I'm experimenting with the idea, but I haven't managed to get it working  
> >>     
> >
> > Something like this:
> > unquote = $(patsubst "%",%,$($1))
> >
> > AFLAGS_.tmp_export-asm.o += -DSYMBOL_PREFIX=$(call unquote,CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX)
> >
> > But the readability is low so we could be better off doing it direct:
> >
> > AFLAGS_.tmp_export-asm.o += -DSYMBOL_PREFIX=$(patsubst "%",",$(CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX))
> >
> > 	Sam
> >   
> 
> Thanks to both of you, I have something that works now. 

I've taken this, but really, it's overkill.  Changing the config to a fixed
"underscore or nothing" was simpler and demonstrably sufficient for all cases
in the last 5 years.

Thanks,
Rusty.