[PATCH v6 2/8] module: use relative references for __ksymtab entries

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Thu Dec 28 07:13:39 AEDT 2017


On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> I tried to keep the generic patches generic, so perhaps I should just
> put the arm64 vmlinux.lds.S change in a patch on its own?

I guess it doesn't matter, but regardless of where it gets introduced
I would like to see the explanation for where the heck that magical
".init.discard.text" comes from. It's definitely not obvious from the
patches, and is presumably some odd arm64 special case.

                Linus


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