From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754732Ab1HaOch (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:32:37 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51790 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750889Ab1HaOcf (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:32:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:32:31 +0200 From: Michal Marek To: Ian Munsie Cc: linux-kernel , linux-kbuild , trivial , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH][Resend][Trivial] tags, powerpc: Update tags.sh to support _GLOBAL symbols Message-ID: <20110831143231.GB30387@sepie.suse.cz> References: <1314668427-sup-1740@au1.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1314668427-sup-1740@au1.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:47:58AM +1000, Ian Munsie wrote: > On PowerPC we use _GLOBAL throughout the assembly to define symbols, but > currently these symbols are missing from the tags generated with > ARCH=powerpc make tags. This patch modifies the tags.sh script to > recognise _GLOBAL(.*) so that these symbols will be in the tags. > > This is almost (but not quite) PowerPC specific and this change should > not affect anyone else: > > $ git grep -E '^_GLOBAL\(([^)]*)\).*' |sed 's/^\([^/]*\/[^/]*\)\/.*$/\1/'|uniq -c > 627 arch/powerpc > 2 arch/um > > Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie > --- > I've had no (online) response to this so far - hoping that this can be > picked up by someone. Applied to kbuild-2.6.git#misc now. Thanks, Michal