On 13/03/13 23:51, Rusty Russell wrote:
> James Hogan <james.ho...@imgtec.com> writes:
>> Fix symbol versioning on architectures with symbol prefixes. Although
>> the build was free from warnings the actual modules still wouldn't load
>> as the ____versions table contained unprefixed symbol names, which were
>> being compared against the prefixed symbol names when checking the
>> symbol versions.
>>
>> This is fixed by modifying modpost to add the symbol prefix to the
>> ____versions table it outputs (Modules.symvers still contains unprefixed
>> symbol names). The check_modstruct_version() function is also fixed as
>> it checks the version of the unprefixed "module_layout" symbol which
>> would no longer work.
> 
> Hmm, this has always been broken, right?  And noone noticed?  Unless you
> really want it now, I'll queue it for *next* merge window.

Yes, that's fine by me.

> I've applied it (reworked) to my pending-rebases queue, and will put it
> in modules-next once the cleanup goes in.

Thanks
James

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