On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 16:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> >
> > arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.o: In function `init_IRQ':
> > (.text+0xb20): multiple definition of `init_IRQ'
> > arch/i386/kernel/i8259.o:(.init.text+0x30): first defined here
> > ld: Warning: size of symbol `init_IRQ' changed from 66 in
> > arch/i386/kernel/i8259.o to 14 in arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.o
> > make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o] Error 1
> > make: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2
>
> Ok, it seems that some versions of gcc/binutils have problems with the
> games that paravirt introduced with the "weak" thing.
>
> I'm not entirely surprised. That stuff was trying to be too clever by
> half.
>
> Rusty?
Sure, but this was in .21 and .22. This config is from 2.6.21.5, in
fact.
Parag, does your arch/i386/kernel/i8259.c look like this around line
384? If not, perhaps it's a mis-merge for you?
/* Overridden in paravirt.c */
void init_IRQ(void) __attribute__((weak, alias("native_init_IRQ")));
void __init native_init_IRQ(void)
{
Thanks,
Rusty.
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