From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Kenneth Chen" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:37:49 +0000
Subject: RE: 2.6.3 compilation problem
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>>>>> Liu, Benjamin wrote on Thu, March 11, 2004 12:33 AM
> To workaround the problem, you can append __attribute__((weak)) to the
> declaration of those discarded symbols defined in section ".exit.text".
>
> The device driver author might be able to answer why it is written that
> way.

The linker gets the award for least informative in this case, and it just
plain misleading.  The culprit isn't the one printed.  It lies somewhere
else.

- Ken