Re: [PATCH] fix in-kernel genksyms for parisc symbols

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:18:14 +0200


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:22:09PM +0200, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > In message <1056410864.1826.57.camel@mulgrave> you write:
> > > The problem is that the parisc libgcc.a library contains symbols that
> > > look like $$mulI and the like, but genksyms doesn't think $ is legal for
> > > a function symbol, so they all get dropped from the output. This means
> > > that inserting almost any module on parisc taints the kernel because
> > > these symbols have no version.
> > >
> > > The fix (attached below) was to allow $ in an identifier in lex.l (and
> > > obviously to update the _shipped files as well, but my flex/bison seem
> > > to be rather different from the one they were generated with, so I'll
> > > leave that to whomever has the correct versions).
> >
> > Looks fine, but my flex is different, too. Kai?
>
> I merged it, will submit.

Could you divulge what version of flex you use, to simplify future
changes?

Regards: David Weinehall

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