Revision 694bf407b06113f5e0f71764756f11903126fec0 authored by Anton Blanchard on 24 August 2011, 06:40:17 UTC, committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo on 23 September 2011, 17:36:36 UTC
Try and pick the best symbol based on a few heuristics:

-  Prefer a non weak symbol over a weak one
-  Prefer a global symbol over a non global one
-  Prefer a symbol with less underscores (idea taken from kallsyms.c)
-  If all else fails, choose the symbol with the longest name

Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110824065243.161953371@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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