Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support.

[Kai Germaschewski]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Roman Zippel wrote:

> > > > missing 
> > > > EXPORT_SYMBOL()s tend to go unnoticed quite often otherwise.
> > > 
> > > The problem here is that we use System.map, it's not that difficult to 
> > > extract the exported symbols:
> > > objcopy -j .kstrtab -O binary vmlinux .export.tmp
> > > tr \\0 \\n < .export.tmp > Export.map
> > 
> > What you say is right (except that it misses symbols exported from 
> > modules), but I don't see what you mean the problem is?
> 
> See above, maybe I quoted to much. The other exported symbols are 
> already extracted by depmod, so it had exactly the information it needs 
> and would give more correct warnings.

The exported symbols can be extracted just as easily from System.map as 
from vmlinux, so I think I still don't understand your point. (And chances 
are higher that System.map is in /boot than an uncompressed vmlinux). 

depmod does give correct warnings, but only at modules install time, not 
at modules build time, that's what I was trying to say.

--Kai