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    [PATCH] kbuild: modpost needs to cope with new glibc elf header on sparc · b95d4fec
    Fabio Massimo Di Nitto authored
    
    
    Recently a change in the glibc elf.h header has been introduced causing
    modpost to spawn tons of warnings (like the one below) building the kernel
    on sparc:
    
    [SNIP]
    *** Warning: "current_thread_info_reg" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined!
    *** Warning: "" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined!
    *** Warning: "" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined!
    [SNIP]
    
    Ben Collins discovered that the STT_REGISTERED definition in glibc did change
    and that this change needs to be propagated to modpost.
    
    glibc change:
    -#define STT_REGISTER   13              /* Global register reserved to app. */
    +#define STT_SPARC_REGISTER     13      /* Global register reserved to app. */
    
    I did and tested this simple patch to maintain compatibility with newer (>= 2.3.4)
    and older (<= 2.3.2) glibc.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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