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* -mm: please drop h8300 kallsyms patch
@ 2008-09-08 14:45 Hugh Dickins
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From: Hugh Dickins @ 2008-09-08 14:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: Yoshinori Sato, Paulo Marques, Sam Ravnborg, linux-kernel

Please drop h8300-kallsyms-exclude-local-symbols.patch from mm for now.

I'm all in favour of its intent, cutting local .Lfoo symbols out of the
the symbol table.  But at present it's cutting out all .symbols - which
is very unfriendly to powerpc, whose every function is a .symbol!
The undotted symbol being the descriptor that points to the function.

My 2.6.27-rc5 powerpc System.map doesn't actually contain any .Lsymbols,
but I expect someone else's does: I doubt excluding .Lsymbols is the
right answer, though it would be an improvement.

Maybe Paulo or Sam has a grasp on what the different architectures'
toolchains do, and can suggest the right patch.

Thanks,
Hugh

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