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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:14:46 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> So quite frankly, I don't want to make our kernel sources worse due to
> broken shit tools getting something wrong that we shouldn't even care
> about.

And yes, I'm on binutils 2.26 (with no issues), so it could be that
it's 2.27 that triggers this.

We could make the pr_warn_once() mention "broken binutils?" so that
people know why the warning happens.

           Linus