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| author | Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> | 2015-10-30 15:20:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> | 2015-10-30 15:20:12 +0000 |
| commit | f666ce40f8d717986f9695f03a175cff8534e2ff (patch) | |
| tree | 7b4055c9a89391984fdcf0b731d9ae53763499d1 /target/linux/bcm53xx | |
| parent | aaeea311e6a8caed14511dc6489665ee9ad681d0 (diff) | |
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build: Allow kernel modules to set build ID debug symbol
This change adds support for specifying a build ID for kernel modules.
This is done by setting PKG_BUILD_ID to a hexadecimal string, which will
then be passed to the kernel linker. In addition, when this flag is set,
the build ID debug symbol (.note.gnu.build-id) will not be stripped from
the kernel module. This symbol is exported in sysfs by the kernel (if
the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_KALLSYMS) and so can be used to
uniquely identify a version of a kernel module in a running kernel. This
is useful for keeping track of different versions of a module when doing
experiments and development.
Modules that specify the build ID will be ~100 bytes larger (depending
on the length of the build ID specified). There is no size difference
for kernel modules that do not set this variable.
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@47290 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
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