[PATCH 34/46] kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem

[Sam Ravnborg]

Warning now looks like this:
WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcpy' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux

Which gives much better hint how to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

 scripts/mod/modpost.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

7b75b13cda8bd21e8636ea985f76e1ce5bd1a470
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 3648683..e2bf4c9 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(c
 		s = new_symbol(name, mod);
 	} else {
 		if (!s->preloaded) {
-			warn("%s: duplicate symbol '%s' previous definition "
+			warn("%s: '%s' exported twice. Previous export "
 			     "was in %s%s\n", mod->name, name,
 			     s->module->name,
 			     is_vmlinux(s->module->name) ?"":".ko");
-- 
1.0.GIT


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