On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 09:27 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > I'm seeing the following warning: > > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to > > .exit.text:gfar_mdio_exit (between 'gfar_init' and 'gfar_mdio_init') > > > > I don't understand why its not ok to access .exit.text from .init.text > > Several architectures discards .exit.text in the final linker > script (arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > > So any references to .exit.text will when a module is build-in result > in a linker error because ld will flag it as an error when we reference > a symbol in a discarded section. But why? Just make kernel size smaller? > > For the popular architectures (i386,x86_64) we discard .exit.text at > runtime so here we do not see the error from ld (sadly). >From which version? On my machine I have seen the same problem when building i386 target with the version 2.6.21. > > Sam > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
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