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From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix in-kernel genksyms for parisc symbols
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:18:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030629221814.GQ17986@khan.acc.umu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306252221320.10554-100000@chaos.tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:22:09PM +0200, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> > In message <1056410864.1826.57.camel@mulgrave> you write:
> > > The problem is that the parisc libgcc.a library contains symbols that
> > > look like $$mulI and the like, but genksyms doesn't think $ is legal for
> > > a function symbol, so they all get dropped from the output.  This means
> > > that inserting almost any module on parisc taints the kernel because
> > > these symbols have no version.
> > > 
> > > The fix (attached below) was to allow $ in an identifier in lex.l (and
> > > obviously to update the _shipped files as well, but my flex/bison seem
> > > to be rather different from the one they were generated with, so I'll
> > > leave that to whomever has the correct versions).
> > 
> > Looks fine, but my flex is different, too.  Kai?
> 
> I merged it, will submit.

Could you divulge what version of flex you use, to simplify future
changes?


Regards: David Weinehall
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-29 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-23 23:27 [PATCH] fix in-kernel genksyms for parisc symbols James Bottomley
2003-06-25  6:02 ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-25 20:22   ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-06-29 22:18     ` David Weinehall [this message]
2003-07-02 15:24       ` Kai Germaschewski

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