Subject: Re: [RFC] ARM binutils feature churn causing kernel problems
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>,
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On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 23:14, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:57:15PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > Why don't you pass s to is_arm_mapping_symbol and have it do the same
> > thing as you've done in get_ksymbol?
> 
> "sym_entry" is not an ELF symtab structure - it's a parsed version
> of the `nm' output, and as such does not contain the symbol type nor
> binding information.

I believe that Paulo (CC'd) ended up with a patch which included the
actual type information in /proc/kallsyms.  Paulo, what's the status of
that patch?

Rusty.
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Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell

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