kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
authorSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>
Sun, 5 Mar 2006 12:48:58 +0000 (13:48 +0100)
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>
Sun, 5 Mar 2006 12:48:58 +0000 (13:48 +0100)
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@ravnborg.org>
scripts/mod/modpost.c

index 3648683a26c53031d11e9cdd46373b2b886c883e..e2bf4c927dd3cf1ff8d149e30ba27033b598c3e4 100644 (file)
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, struct module *mod)
                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");