[ccache] Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out ccache/distcc

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:28:10PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >	b) is there any reason why we can't copy symbol table out of module
> >ourselves (instead of setting SHF_ALLOC on it) and trim the crap out of
> >it?  Note that __crc_... is not the only junk in there - you don't need
> >(or want) to keep the things like undefs for /proc/kallsyms purposes.
> >And modules *using* an exported symbol are more common that modules exporting
> >one...  Why not copy it at add_kallsyms() time, skipping the junk we don't
> >want anyway?
> 
> Would certainly be doable, but would seem reasonable only if it's a small
> set of easily recognizable symbols. If you look at scripts/strip-symbols,
> you may agree that it's better to do this at build time...

I will not.  Undefined ones are far more common than any of those...