[PATCH] Fix endianess in modpost when cross-compiling for sparc on i386

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

	Hi,

this simple patch makes the following code work again:

#ifdef STT_REGISTER
                if (info->hdr->e_machine == EM_SPARC ||
                    info->hdr->e_machine == EM_SPARCV9) {
                        /* Ignore register directives. */
                        if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) == STT_REGISTER)
                                break;
                }
#endif

This portion of code is sparc specific and nothing else in modpost.c uses
e_machine meaning cross-compiling for sparc on i386 (or any little endian
machine) is the only way to experience the bug.

Without it, e_machine has the wrong value and modpost then generates a lot
of "*** Warning: \"symbol\" [filename.ko] undefined" messages.

--- scripts/modpost.c.orig	2004-05-12 13:58:58.000000000 -0400
+++ scripts/modpost.c	2004-05-12 14:05:20.000000000 -0400
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@
 	hdr->e_shoff    = TO_NATIVE(hdr->e_shoff);
 	hdr->e_shstrndx = TO_NATIVE(hdr->e_shstrndx);
 	hdr->e_shnum    = TO_NATIVE(hdr->e_shnum);
+	hdr->e_machine  = TO_NATIVE(hdr->e_machine);
 	sechdrs = (void *)hdr + hdr->e_shoff;
 	info->sechdrs = sechdrs;
 


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