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From: Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com>
To: Ian Soanes <ians@lineo.com>
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Subject: Re: Insmod messages and modules space 
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:55:16 +0100, 
Ian Soanes <ians@lineo.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:10:16PM +0200, Shay Deloya wrote:
>> > 2. I keep getting in insmod of busybox pkg , "relocation overflow" message
>> > especially on printk symbols
>
>Compiling with -mlong-calls worked for me when I had the same problem
>(modutils 2.4.5).

Compiling what with -mlong-calls, modutils or the kernel modules?  I
guess it must be the modules, in which case adding
  MODFLAGS += -mlong-calls
in arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile is the best fix.