>>> On 26.10.15 at 13:01, <mpohl...@amazon.com> wrote: > On 16.09.2015 23:01, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> +The convention for file-type symbols (that would allow to map many >> +symbols to their compilation unit) says that only the basename (i.e., >> +without directories) is embedded. This creates another layer of >> +confusion for duplicate file names in the build tree. >> + >> +That would have to be resolved. > > Another approach here would be to qualify symbol names by the > object-file name which contains them + a unique path component, for example: > > drivers/pci/pci.o > arch/x86/pci.o > arch/x86/x86_64/pci.o
I wouldn't want to do this uniformly. A patch series doing this where needed has been proposed already: http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-10/msg02702.html Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
