Re: [PATCH] kbuild: introduce blacklisting in modpost

[Rusty Russell]

On Monday 21 January 2008 07:08:59 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Change the logic in modpost so we identify all the
> bad combinations of sections that refer to other
> sections.
...
> +/* The pattern is an array of simple patterns.
> + * "foo" will match an exact string equal to "foo"
> + * "foo*" will match a string that begins with "foo"
> + * "foo$" will match a string equal to "foo" or "foo.1"
> + *   where the '1' can be any number including several digits.
> + *   The $ syntax is for sections where ld append a dot number
> + *   to make section name unique.

Dumb question: would it be easier to canonicalize all the section names by 
removing trailing .[num]*, then using fnmatch() and standard wildcards?

The rest of the patches look really nice: thanks for doing this cleanup!

Rusty.
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