Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266316AbUJGPCP (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:02:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266273AbUJGPBf (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:01:35 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:32019 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266316AbUJGPBO (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:01:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:01:08 +0100 From: Russell King To: Paulo Marques Cc: Rusty Russell , Richard Earnshaw , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , Catalin Marinas , Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [RFC] ARM binutils feature churn causing kernel problems Message-ID: <20041007160108.B8579@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Paulo Marques , Rusty Russell , Richard Earnshaw , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , Catalin Marinas , Sam Ravnborg References: <20040927210305.A26680@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20041001211106.F30122@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1096931899.32500.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041005125324.A6910@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1096981035.14574.20.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <20041005141452.B6910@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1097016532.32500.357.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41653814.1060405@grupopie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <41653814.1060405@grupopie.com>; from pmarques@grupopie.com on Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:35:32PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1069 Lines: 26 On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:35:32PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > The patch by Russel King seems ok to me, although I prefer Rusty's idea > of not using any symbol that is not in the form "[A-Za-z0-9_]+". We just > need to check if there are any real world users of these "weird" symbols. This may filter out too much - we have symbols starting with a '.' on ARM, particularly used in some of the assembly code, which are useful to be decoded back to names, such as ".bug". However, including "." means that names like "__func__.0" also get included, which is probably a bad thing. So, maybe it needs to be [A-Za-z0-9_\.][A-Za-z0-9_]* ? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/