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Subject: Re: sorting of exports breaks modpost's GPL checking
From: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
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To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
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Dear Mr. Beulich,

2011/7/4 Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>:
> Is it known (and being worked on) that exported symbols residing
> themselves in modules are no longer properly handled by modpost,
> due to the .o files to be linked into .ko (other than vmlinux and the
> .ko files) still carrying the ___ksymtab*+<symbol> sections?
>
> If not - what are the thoughts to resolve this?
[...]

Could you tell me how reproduce the problem?

Thanks!

Ciao,
Alessio