From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Shay Deloya <shay@jungo.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: insmod problems
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 23:40:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010508234036.A1216@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01050619134301.01140@athena.home.krftech.com>; from shay@jungo.com on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:13:43PM +0300
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:13:43PM +0300, Shay Deloya wrote:
> I have an old problem came up again and the old solution aren't helping.
> I'm using busybox version 0.50 and with kernel 2.2 , and inserting
> some modules ,especially those with DEBUG macroes e.g:
> #define DEBUG_HIGH(args...) {if (debug_level >= HIGH) printk(args);}
> causes the message :
> Relocation overflow of type 4 for
>
> and insmod fails.
>
> I'm compiling the modules with -mlong-calls and still getting this message.
>
> Is it insmod knowen bugs that the relocation is done in bad way or
> a linker/compiler bug. I'm using compiler: egcs ver 1.0.3a
> I'm checking this problem at the moment and looking for insmod bug.
You'll have to upgrade to very current binutils which for mips*-linux
targets default to elf32-trad{big,little}mips, not IRIX ELF format. Also
it seems your modutils are a bit rotten, get the latest from ftp.kernel.org.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-09 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-06 16:13 insmod problems Shay Deloya
2001-05-09 2:40 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-05-10 8:53 ` Michael Shmulevich
2001-05-10 18:46 ` Ralf Baechle
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