Change modpost section mismatch warnings to be less confusing;
model them on the binutils linker warnings which we all know how
to interpret.
Also, fix the wrong ordering of arguments for the final case -
fromsec and refsymname were reversed.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Yes, I build-tested the last patch but it didn't throw any warnings.
Here's a corrected patch.
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 113dc77..acd28ab 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -885,29 +885,28 @@ static void warn_sec_mismatch(const char *modname, const
char *fromsec,
return;
if (before && after) {
- warn("%s - Section mismatch: reference to %s:%s from %s "
- "between '%s' (at offset 0x%llx) and '%s'\n",
- modname, secname, refsymname, fromsec,
+ warn("%s(%s+0x%llx): Section mismatch: reference to %s:%s "
+ "(between '%s' and '%s')\n",
+ modname, fromsec, (long long)r.r_offset,
+ secname, refsymname,
elf->strtab + before->st_name,
- (long long)r.r_offset,
elf->strtab + after->st_name);
} else if (before) {
- warn("%s - Section mismatch: reference to %s:%s from %s "
- "after '%s' (at offset 0x%llx)\n",
- modname, secname, refsymname, fromsec,
- elf->strtab + before->st_name,
- (long long)r.r_offset);
+ warn("%s(%s+0x%llx): Section mismatch: reference to %s:%s "
+ "(after '%s')\n",
+ modname, fromsec, (long long)r.r_offset,
+ secname, refsymname,
+ elf->strtab + before->st_name);
} else if (after) {
- warn("%s - Section mismatch: reference to %s:%s from %s "
+ warn("%s(%s+0x%llx): Section mismatch: reference to %s:%s "
"before '%s' (at offset -0x%llx)\n",
- modname, secname, refsymname, fromsec,
- elf->strtab + after->st_name,
- (long long)r.r_offset);
+ modname, fromsec, (long long)r.r_offset,
+ secname, refsymname,
+ elf->strtab + after->st_name);
} else {
- warn("%s - Section mismatch: reference to %s:%s from %s "
- "(offset 0x%llx)\n",
- modname, secname, fromsec, refsymname,
- (long long)r.r_offset);
+ warn("%s(%s+0x%llx): Section mismatch: reference to %s:%s\n",
+ modname, fromsec, (long long)r.r_offset,
+ secname, refsymname);
}
}
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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