From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:01:55 +0000 Subject: RE: Link error with linux-2.5 bk Message-Id: <16398.48787.367528.610016@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <20040120144809.GT27591@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040120144809.GT27591@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:57:43 -0800, "Luck, Tony" said: >> Andrew sent me the attached. He seems to agree with your analysis & fix. Tony> Why didn't this show up on other architecture builds? Doesn't Tony> anyone else discard .exit.text? Or does everyone else have Tony> the default for CONFIG_DUMMY set to 'n' or 'm' rather than Tony> 'y'? I'm wondering about that, too. Tony> I'd also like to nominate: Tony> local symbol 0: discarded in section `.exit.text' from drivers/built-in.o Tony> for the "Least helpful error message" award(*). From previous Tony> experience I know that this is caused by improper use of Tony> __exit ... but it would really help a lot if the message had Tony> an actual symbol name, rather than "local symbol 0". I think the linker has even worse error messages. Perhaps you could talk HJ into taking a look at it? (In his copious spare time...) --david