Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:07:22 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] kallsyms, tracing: output more proper symbol name
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:40:13 +0100
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> > This patch puts symbols like "__irqentry_text_start" to the second
> > aliased symbols. And a more proper symbol name becomes the first.
> > 
> > Aliased symbols mostly come from linker script. The solution is
> > guessing "is this symbol defined in linker script", the symbols
> > defined in linker script will not become the first aliased symbol.
> > 
> > And if symbols are found to be equal in this "linker script provided"
> > criteria, symbols are sorted by the number of prefix underscores.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

So... do we need this in 2.6.29?

I'm about to jump on a plane and shall be a bit intermittent for a week.
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