linux/include
Linus Torvalds f27c2f69cc Revert "default exported asm symbols to zero"
This reverts commit 8ab2ae655b.

I loved that commit because of how it explained what the problem with
newer versions of binutils were, but the actual patch itself turns out
to not work very well.

It has two problems:

 - a zero CRC value isn't actually right.  It happens to work for the
   case where both sides of the equation fail at giving the symbol a
   crc, but there are cases where the users of the exported symbol get
   the right crc (due to seeing the C declarations), but the actual
   exporting itself does not (due to the whole weak asm symbol issue).

   So then the module load fails after all - we did have a crc for the
   symbol, but we couldn't match it with the loaded module.

 - it seems that the alpha assembler has special semantics for the
   '.set' directive, and on alpha it doesn't actually set the value of
   the specified symbol at all, it is instead used to set various
   assembly modes (eg ".set noat" and ".set noreorder").

   So using ".set" to set the symbol value would just cause build
   failures on alpha.

I'm sure we'll find some other workaround for these issues (hopefully
that involves getting rid of modversions entirely some day, but people
are also talking about just using smarter tools).  But for now we'll
just fall back on commit faaae2a581 ("Re-enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS in
a slightly weaker form") that just let's a missing crc through.

Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-07 08:39:00 -08:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpica-fixes', 'acpi-cppc-fixes' and 'acpi-tools-fixes' 2016-11-18 21:34:42 +01:00
asm-generic Revert "default exported asm symbols to zero" 2016-12-07 08:39:00 -08:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: drbg - prevent invalid SG mappings 2016-11-30 19:46:44 +08:00
drm drm: Don't force all planes to be added to the state due to zpos 2016-10-26 18:48:05 +02:00
dt-bindings Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2016-10-12 11:05:23 -07:00
keys
kvm
linux Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-12-02 11:45:27 -08:00
math-emu
media Linux 4.8 2016-10-05 16:43:53 -03:00
memory
misc
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf 2016-12-01 11:04:41 -05:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Merge of primary rdma-core code for 4.9 2016-10-09 17:04:33 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge remote-tracking branch 'mkp-scsi/4.8/scsi-fixes' into fixes 2016-09-27 22:30:51 -07:00
soc powerpc updates for 4.9 #2 2016-10-14 11:07:42 -07:00
sound ASoC: Updates for v4.9 2016-09-30 18:40:40 +02:00
target target: Make EXTENDED_COPY 0xe4 failure return COPY TARGET DEVICE NOT REACHABLE 2016-10-19 21:22:32 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2016-10-14 12:18:50 -07:00
uapi uapi glibc compat: fix outer guard of net device flags enum 2016-12-06 10:43:32 -05:00
video fbdev changes for 4.9 2016-10-12 11:01:37 -07:00
xen xen: features and fixes for 4.9-rc0 2016-10-06 11:19:10 -07:00
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