Re: [-mm PATCH] kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:35:32 +0000
Paulo Marques <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names, 
> kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak 
> symbol.
> 
> This patch changes this by sorting the symbols with the weak symbols 
> last before feeding them to the kernel. This way the kernel runtime 
> isn't changed at all, only the kallsyms build system is changed.
> 

what user of this api is affected by this?


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