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.
>
> Another side effect is that the symbols get sorted by address, too. So,
> even if future binutils version have some bug in "nm" that makes it fail
> to correctly sort symbols by address, the kernel won't be affected by this.
>
>
I don't understand the reason for making this change.
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