[PATCH 0/7] build updates

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 18:44:22 AEDT 2016


On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:15:53 +1100
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> wrote:

> [*] Building allyesconfig still requires KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1, which
>     I'm yet to look into.

Oh, it's because the kallsyms payload increases kernel image size and that
causes more linker stubs to be generated, which have symbols, which go into
kallsyms... What a nightmare.

We can use --no-emit-stub-syms, but it's kind of nice to have names for
things.

Thanks,
Nick


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