From: Al Viro Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:52:23 +0000 (+0000) Subject: [PATCH] __crc_... is intended to be absolute X-Git-Tag: v2.6.20~31 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2a3d4f1f1f839e354ebd7d40b2d5d8ac8481a930;p=pandora-kernel.git [PATCH] __crc_... is intended to be absolute i386 boot/compressed/relocs checks for absolute symbols and warns about unexpected ones. If you build with modversions, you get ~2500 warnings about __crc_. These suckers are really absolute symbols - we do _not_ want to modify them on relocation. They are generated by genksyms - EXPORT_... generates a weak alias, then genksyms produces an ld script with __crc_ = and it's fed to ld to produce the final object file. Their only use is to match kernel and module at modprobe time; they _must_ be absolute. boot/compressed/relocs has a whitelist of known absolute symbols, but it doesn't know about __crc_... stuff. As the result, we get shitloads of false positives on any ld(1) version. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed