Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:22:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix in-kernel genksyms for parisc symbols 
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:

> In message <1056410864.1826.57.camel@mulgrave> you write:
> > The problem is that the parisc libgcc.a library contains symbols that
> > look like $$mulI and the like, but genksyms doesn't think $ is legal for
> > a function symbol, so they all get dropped from the output.  This means
> > that inserting almost any module on parisc taints the kernel because
> > these symbols have no version.
> > 
> > The fix (attached below) was to allow $ in an identifier in lex.l (and
> > obviously to update the _shipped files as well, but my flex/bison seem
> > to be rather different from the one they were generated with, so I'll
> > leave that to whomever has the correct versions).
> 
> Looks fine, but my flex is different, too.  Kai?

I merged it, will submit.

--Kai

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