From 7b75b13cda8bd21e8636ea985f76e1ce5bd1a470 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 13:48:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user
this is the problem
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>
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 3648683a26c530..e2bf4c927dd3cf 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, struct module *mod)
s = new_symbol(name, mod);
} else {
if (!s->preloaded) {
- warn("%s: duplicate symbol '%s' previous definition "
+ warn("%s: '%s' exported twice. Previous export "
"was in %s%s\n", mod->name, name,
s->module->name,
is_vmlinux(s->module->name) ?"":".ko");
--
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