On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:07:51AM +0200, David Marchand wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:43 PM, David Marchand > <david.marchand at 6wind.com> wrote: > > - not storing the pci ids in a dedicated section anymore, pci drivers are > > exported and parsed by a quickly written (and naive) tool > > Rethinking about this, this part won't do. > Stripping symbols breaks it, and I had to go some gymnastics to get > the symbols, while having exported information sanitised as strings in > a dedicated section constructed at build time would be saner. > Yes, this really sounds like modinfo ... > > Volunteers ? modinfo (or a tool likes it), requires more gymnastics in the actual code than what we have. It requires the auto-generation of extra c code that gets linked into its own section (which implies the need for a linker script).
Not saying its a bad idea, its a pretty good one, just that its alot of work. We might be able to do something a bit more simple, perhaps convert the macros to strings that we can extract with a tool? not sure Neil > > > -- > David Marchand >
