From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:47:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc1~548^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1ce53adf13a54375d2a5c7cdbe341b2558389615;p=pandora-kernel.git

modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections

This patch makes modpost able to process object files with more than
64k sections. Needed for huge kernel builds (allyesconfig, for example)
with -ffunction-sections. 64k sections handling is covered, for example,
by this document:

"IA-64 gABI Proposal 74: Section Indexes"
http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi/prop-74-sindex.html

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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