Re: [patch] 2.4.6-pre3 unresolved symbol do_softirq

[David S. Miller]

Keith Owens writes:
 > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:06:42 -0700 (PDT), 
 > "David S. Miller" <[e-mail]> wrote:
 > >
 > >Keith Owens writes:
 > > > OTOH if any *.S code is compiled into a module then all symbols it
 > > > refers to must be EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS().
 > >
 > >Why not just add --include modversions.h to the gcc command line to
 > >build it, why wouldn't this work?
 > 
 > Assembler code is not hooked into the generic module symbol version
 > handling.  Every .S rule is unique and I'm not going to change every
 > one.

Why not make a ASM_CPP_DEFINES that all those rules use?

Surely this is a smaller hammer than making them all NOVERS(), I
think all of these workarounds with novers for assembly are silly and
are merely looking for a solution which nobody (perhaps except me :-)
is bothering to look for.

Later,
David S. Miller
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