Re: Failing randconfig builds with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS

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From	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject	Re: Failing randconfig builds with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
Date	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:30:02 +0200
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On Thursday 28 April 2016 16:56:23 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Well, the actual explanation is that this module uses only one symbol. 
> And when only one symbol was listed, it got ignored.
 
Ok.

> 
> Now fixing this wasn't all that obvious either.  I had a really nice sed 
> rule to parse multiple instances per line, but sed regexp can only do 
> greedy matching. I found out how people work around that limitation but 
> that doesn't work well for string delimiters.
> 
> In the end the best workaround is simple: substitute any ';' with '\n':

Wow, I could have spent days trying to figure these out, glad I gave
up earlier ;-)

I've applied both patches locally now, and have successfully built
all the configurations that failed before. I'll let you know if something
else should come up.

Thanks,

	Arnd

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Re: Failing randconfig builds with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-04-28 23:00 +0200
  Re: Failing randconfig builds with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-28 23:30 +0200

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