On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> How should this be fixed?
>> - Re-add SYMBOL_NAME() to arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h?
>
> No. The whole point was to *not* have these random private definitions.
>
> I guess you could use VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and include <linux/export.h>
> and then use VMLINUX_SYMBOL(). Although..
>
>> - Kill SYMBOL_NAME() and SYMBOL_NAME_LABEL(), and hardcode the
>> underscores in the h8300 asm sources?
>
> .. I think this is what everybody else does. Although sometimes that
> underscore depends on what the linkage format is (ie historically
> a.out vs elf etc). We pretty much expect ELF these days, but maybe
> other conditional reasons exist - so there may be a reason you don't
> want to do the hardcoding (although on h8300 it seems to be
> unconditional at least for now).
Thx, will fix.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
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