Re: kbuild news

[Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>]

> From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>

>>No, the kallsyms object file would not need to be seen by
>>the btfixup.o generator.  It could therefore be done validly
>>as:
>>
>>	1) build .tmp_vmlinux
>>	2) build btfixup.o
>>	3) build kallsyms
>>	4) link final vmlinux image
>>
>>The order of #2 and #3 could be transposed and that would be fine too.
> 
> Wrong.  Anything that changes the address or size of any symbol or
> section invalidates the kallsyms data.  kallsyms must be run on the
> definitive vmlinux contents, with everything else already included and
> all sizes must be stable.

Let's face it, both btfixup and kallsyms "want" to be the last,
so something has to give.

-- Pete