From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15141 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2008 03:07:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 15134 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Mar 2008 03:07:52 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:07:32 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2J37KKp000575 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:07:20 -0400 Received: from gateway.sf.frob.com (vpn-14-149.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.14.149]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m2J37Jm5028920 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:07:20 -0400 Received: from magilla.localdomain (magilla.sf.frob.com [198.49.250.228]) by gateway.sf.frob.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF0E357B; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:07:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by magilla.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 5281) id 82AD926F995; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:07:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Wenji Huang Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , systemtap@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Bug: duplicate marker entry in Modules.marker In-Reply-To: Wenji Huang's message of Wednesday, 19 March 2008 10:56:16 +0800 <47E080D0.2030800@oracle.com> References: <20080129160005.GA5561@Krystal> <47E080D0.2030800@oracle.com> X-Antipastobozoticataclysm: When George Bush projectile vomits antipasto on the Japanese. Message-Id: <20080319030718.82AD926F995@magilla.localdomain> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:07:00 -0000 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.52.254 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00467.txt.bz2 I think modpost always merges the contents of the old file. This is necessary for the separate runs for vmlinux and each module. Perhaps the run for vmlinux should wipe the file. But I'm not sure off hand that modpost will always be run for each .ko in that case.