o Modpost generates warnings for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:find_unisys_acpi_oem_table from .text between 'acpi_madt_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101eda) and 'enable_apic_mode'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:acpi_get_table_header_early from .text between 'acpi_madt_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101ef0) and 'enable_apic_mode'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:parse_unisys_oem from .text between 'acpi_madt_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101f2e) and 'enable_apic_mode'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:setup_unisys from .text between 'acpi_madt_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101f37) and 'enable_apic_mode'WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:parse_unisys_oem from .text between 'mps_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101ec7) and 'acpi_madt_oem_check'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:es7000_sw_apic from .text between 'enable_apic_mode' (at offset 0xc0101f48) and 'check_apicid_present'
o Some functions which are inline (acpi_madt_oem_check) are not inlined by
compiler as these functions are accessed using function pointer. These
functions are put in .text section and they in-turn access __init type
functions hence modpost generates warnings.
o Do not iniline acpi_madt_oem_check, instead make it __init.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (78 commits)
[PARISC] Use symbolic last syscall in __NR_Linux_syscalls
[PARISC] Add missing statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls
Revert "[PARISC] Optimize TLB flush on SMP systems"
[PARISC] Compat signal fixes for 64-bit parisc
[PARISC] Reorder syscalls to match unistd.h
Revert "[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static"
[PARISC] fix sys_rt_sigqueueinfo
[PARISC] fix section mismatch warnings in harmony sound driver
[PARISC] do not export get_register/set_register
[PARISC] add ENTRY()/ENDPROC() and simplify assembly of HP/UX emulation code
[PARISC] convert to use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__
[PARISC] use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__
[PARISC] add ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_ENTRY() macro
[PARISC] more ENTRY(), ENDPROC(), END() conversions
[PARISC] fix ENTRY() and ENDPROC() for 64bit-parisc
[PARISC] Fixes /proc/cpuinfo cache output on B160L
[PARISC] implement standard ENTRY(), END() and ENDPROC()
[PARISC] kill ENTRY_SYS_CPUS
[PARISC] clean up debugging printks in smp.c
[PARISC] factor syscall_restart code out of do_signal
...
Fix conflict in include/linux/sched.h due to kill_proc_info() being made
publicly available to PARISC again.
This patch stops "modpost" from issuing erroneous modpost warnings on ARM
builds, which it's been doing since since maybe last summer. A canonical
example would be driver method table entries:
WARNING: <path> - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:<name>_remove
from .data after '$d' (at offset 0x4)
That "$d" symbol is generated by tools conformant with ARM ABI specs; in
this case it's a symbol **in the middle of** a "<name>_driver" struct.
The erroneous warnings appear to be issued because "modpost" whitelists
references from "<name>_driver" data into init and exit sections ... but
doesn't know should also include those "$d" mapping symbols, which are not
otherwise associated with "<name>_driver" symbols.
This patch prevents the modpost symbol lookup code from ever returning
those mapping symbols, so it will return a whitelisted symbol instead.
Then things work as expected.
Now to revert various code-bloating "fixes" that got merged because of this
modpost bug....
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
o Entry startup_32 was in .text section but it was accessing some init
data too and it prompts MODPOST to generate compilation warnings.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:boot_params from
.text between '_text' (at offset 0xc0100029) and 'startup_32_smp'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:boot_params from
.text between '_text' (at offset 0xc0100037) and 'startup_32_smp'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to
.init.data:init_pg_tables_end from .text between '_text' (at offset
0xc0100099) and 'startup_32_smp'
o Can't move startup_32 to .init.text as this entry point has to be at the
start of bzImage. Hence moved startup_32 to a new section .text.head and
instructed MODPOST to not to generate warnings if init data is being
accessed from .text.head section. This code has been audited.
o SMP boot up code (startup_32_smp) can go into .init.text if CPU hotplug
is not supported. Otherwise it generates more warnings
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:new_cpu_data from
.text between 'checkCPUtype' (at offset 0xc0100126) and 'is486'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:new_cpu_data from
.text between 'checkCPUtype' (at offset 0xc0100130) and 'is486'
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
parisc and parisc64 seem to name sections a little differently from other
targets. parisc64 gives spurious warnings like:
WARNING: drivers/net/dummy.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:dummy_setup from .data.rel.ro between '.LC1' (at offset 0x0) and '.LC6'
and parisc gives spurious warnings like:
WARNING: drivers/net/dummy.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:dummy_setup from .rodata.cst4 between '.LC1' (at offset 0x0) and '.LC6'
Given the other comments in modpost.c, it seems that the best solution is
to move rodata down to the 'match at start of name' section and add
.data.rel.ro to the 'match entire name' section.
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
o MODPOST generates warning on i386 if kernel is compiled with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__init_begin from .text between 'free_initmem' (at offset 0xc0114fd3) and 'do_test_wp_bit'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeae) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeb7) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc0135776) and 'reset_iter'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc013577d) and 'reset_iter'
o These symbols (__init_begin, _sinittext, _einittext) belong to init
section and generally represent a section boundary. These are special
symbols in the sense that their size is zero and no memory is allocated
for them in init section. Their addr and value are same. So even if
we free the init section, it is ok to reference them.
o Whitelist access to such select symbols in MODPOST.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
o MODPOST generates warning for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
and serial console support is enabled.
o Serial console setup function, serial8250_console_setup(), is a non __init
function and it calls functions which are of type __init().
(uart_parse_options() and uart_set_options()). Assuming, setup will
be called during init time, changing serial8250_console_setup() to __init.
o Adding one more pattern to modpost whitelist. Console drivers might
have *_console structures containing references to setup functions which
can be of __init type. Don't generate warnings for those.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data between 'serial8250_console' (at offset 0xc05a33d8) and 'serial8250_reg'
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Section .parainstructions should not warn about section mismatches.
WARNING: drivers/net/hamradio/scc.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .parainstructions after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/net/hamradio/scc.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .parainstructions after '' (at offset 0x8)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It turns out that the most called ops, by several orders of magnitude,
are the interrupt manipulation ops. These are obvious candidates for
patching, so mark them up and create infrastructure for it.
The method used is that the ops structure has a patch function, which
is called for each place which needs to be patched: this returns a
number of instructions (the rest are NOP-padded).
Usually we can spare a register (%eax) for the binary patched code to
use, but in a couple of critical places in entry.S we can't: we make
the clobbers explicit at the call site, and manually clobber the
allowed registers in debug mode as an extra check.
And:
Don't abuse CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, add CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT.
And:
AK: Fix warnings in x86-64 alternative.c build
And:
AK: Fix compilation with defconfig
And:
^From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Some binutlises still like to emit references to __stop_parainstructions and
__start_parainstructions.
And:
AK: Fix warnings about unused variables when PARAVIRT is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
This patch adds support for feature fixups in modules. This involves
adding support for R_PPC64_REL64 relocs to the 64 bits module loader.
It also modifies modpost.c to ignore the powerpc fixup sections (or it
would warn when used in .init.text).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
At stage 2 modpost utility is used to check modules. In case of unresolved
symbols modpost only prints warning.
IMHO it is a good idea to fail compilation process in case of unresolved
symbols (at least in modules coming with kernel), since usually such errors
are left unnoticed, but kernel modules are broken.
- new option '-w' is added to modpost:
if option is specified, modpost only warns about unresolved symbols
- modpost is called with '-w' for external modules in Makefile.modpost
Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
We now have infrastructure in place to mark an EXPORTed symbol
as unused. So the natural next step is to warn during buildtime when
a module uses a symbol marked UNUSED.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
read_dump didn't split lines between module name and export type.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
scripts/mod/modpost.c: In function `check_license':
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1094: parse error before `const'
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1095: `basename' undeclared (first use in this function)
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1095: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1095: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Modules that uses GPL symbols can no longer be build with kbuild,
the build will fail during the modpost step.
When a GPL-incompatible module uses a EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE symbol
then warn during modpost so author are actually notified.
The actual license compatibility check is shared with the kernel
to make sure it is in sync.
Patch originally from: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> and
Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This patch provides the ability to identify the export-type of each
exported symbols in Module.symvers.
NOTE: It updates the Module.symvers file with the additional
information as shown below.
0x0f8b92af platform_device_add_resources vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
0xcf7efb2a ethtool_op_set_tx_csum vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avantika Mathur <mathur@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Ignoring references to .init.text, .exit.text from the .plt section brought
the false positives down to two warnings for a defconfig build of ARCH=um
on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Add ".smp_locks" section to whitelist as being safe from
init and exit sections.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Here is an updated r_info layout fix. Please apply "check SHT_REL
sections" patch before this.
64bit mips has different r_info layout. This patch fixes modpost
segfault for 64bit little endian mips kernel.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I found that modpost can not detect section mismatch on mips and i386. On
mips64, the modpost (with r_info layout fix) can detect it. The current
modpst only checks SHT_RELA section but I suppose SHT_REL section should be
checked also. This patch does not contain r_info layout fix. I'll post an
updated r_info layout fix on next mail.
Check SHT_REL sections as like as SHT_RELA sections to detect section
mismatch.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This reverts commit c8d8b837eb, which
caused problems for the x86 build. Quoth Sam:
"It was discussed on mips list but apparently the fix was bogus. I
will not have time to look into it so mips can carry this local fix
until we get a proper fix in mainline."
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Relax driver data name from *_driver to *driver.
This fixes the 26 section mismatch warnings in drivers/ide/pci.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
64bit mips has different r_info layout. This patch fixes modpost
segfault for 64bit little endian mips kernel.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com> pointed out a
number of false positives where we referenced variables
from a _driver variable.
Fix it by check for that pattern and ignore it.
Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> pointed out a similar
set of warnings for a number of scsi drivers.
In scsi world they misname their variables *_template or
*_sht so add these to list of variables that may have references
to .init.text with no warning.
Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> also pointed out a scsi driver
with many references to .exit.text from .rodata. This is compiler
generated references and we already ignore these for .init.text, so
ignore them for .exit.text also.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
before is NULL in this case, concluding from the surrounding code
it seems that after is the right one to use.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits)
kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files
kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg
kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h
Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options
kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile
kbuild: clean-up genksyms
kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c
kbuild: fix genksyms build error
kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files
kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE
kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior
kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing
kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description
kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy
...
Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up
Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> reported that modpost would stop with SIGABRT if
used with long filepaths.
The error looked like:
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST
> *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size:
+0x0809f588 ***
> [...]
Fix this by allocating at least the required memory + SZ bytes each time.
Before we sometimes ended up allocating too little memory resuting in the
glibc detected bug above. Based on patch originally submitted by: Jiri
Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c uses hardcoded "__crc_" prefix for
crc symbols in kernel and modules. The prefix should be replaced by
"MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX##__crc_" otherwise there will be warnings when
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX is not NULL.
I am sorry my last patch for this issue is actually wrong. I revert
it in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Warning now looks like this:
WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcpy' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
Which gives much better hint how to fix it.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
When searching for symbols the only check performed was if
offset equals st_value. Adding an additional check to see if st_name
points t a valid name made us sort out a few more false positives and
let us report more correct names in warnings.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Building an allmodconfig kernel for ppc64 revealed a number of false
positives - originally reported by Andrew Morton.
This patch removes most if not all false positives for ppc64:
Section .opd
The .opd section contains function descriptors at least for ppc64.
So ignore it for .init.text (was ignored for .exit.text).
See description of function descriptors here:
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi-1.7.html
Section .toc1
ppc64 places some static variables in .toc1 - ignore the.
Section __bug_tabe
BUG() and friends uses __bug_table. Ignore warnings from that section.
Module parameters are placed in .data.rel for ppc64, for adjust pattern to
match on section named .data*
Tested with gcc: 3.4.0 and binutils 2.15.90.0.3
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
In several cases the section mismatch check triggered false warnings.
Following patch introduce a whitelist to 'false positives' are not warned of.
Two types of patterns are recognised:
1) Typical case when a module parameter is _initdata
2) When a function pointer is assigned to a driver structure
In both patterns we rely on the actual name of the variable assigned
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
It seems popular to protect your work with copyright, so I decided to do
so for modpost which I patch a great deal atm.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Andrew Morton reported a number of false positives for ia64 - like these:
WARNING: drivers/acpi/button.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .IA_64.unwind.init.text after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/acpi/button.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .IA_64.unwind.exit.text after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/acpi/processor.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .IA_64.unwind after '' (at offset 0x1e8)
They are all false positives - or at least the .c code looks OK.
It is not known why sometimes a section name is appended and sometimes not.
Fix is to accept references from all sections that includes "unwind." in the name.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The kernel now requires that CC be 3.1.0 or higher. But we shouldn't place
that requirement upon HOSTCC unless we really need to. Fixes my ia64 problem.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Do not try to look up section name until we know it is not a special
section. Otherwise we will address outside legal space and segfault.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Section mismatch is identified as references to .init*
sections from non .init sections. And likewise references
to .exit.* sections outside .exit sections.
.init.* sections are discarded after a module is initialized
and references to .init.* sections are oops candidates.
.exit.* sections are discarded when a module is built-in and
thus references to .exit are also oops candidates.
The checks were possible to do using 'make buildcheck' which
called the two perl scripts: reference_discarded.pl and
reference_init.pl. This patch just moves the same functionality
inside modpost and the scripts are then obsoleted.
They will though be kept for a while so users can do double
checks - but note that some .o files are skipped by the perl scripts
so result is not 1:1.
All credit for the concept goes to Keith Owens who implemented
the original perl scrips - this patch just moves it to modpost.
Compared to the perl script the implmentation in modpost will be run
for each kernel build - thus catching the error much sooner, but
the downside is that the individual .o file are not always identified.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
In modpost introduce a check for symbols exported twice.
This check caught only one victim (inet_bind_bucket_create) for
which a patch is already sent to netdev.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
With following patch a second option is enabled to obtain
symbol information from a second external module when a
external module is build.
The recommended approach is to use a common kbuild file but
that may be impractical in certain cases.
With this patch one can copy over a Module.symvers from one
external module to make symbols (and symbol versions) available
for another external module.
Updated documentation in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Vivek Goyal