From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3OLBKwJ020340 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:11:20 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3OLBKlM020338 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:11:20 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from idiom.com (espin@idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g3OLBEwJ020335 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:11:15 -0700 Received: (from espin@localhost) by idiom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA68127; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:11:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:11:36 -0700 From: Geoffrey Espin To: "H . J . Lu" Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-mips-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Updates for RedHat 7.1/mips Message-ID: <20020424141136.A63873@idiom.com> References: <20020423155925.A8846@lucon.org> <20020424135339.A24558@idiom.com> <20020424140156.A28438@lucon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <20020424140156.A28438@lucon.org>; from H . J . Lu on Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:01:56PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:01:56PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote: > That is a kernel bug which has been fixed in the newer kernel. From my > binutils release note: > Changes from binutils 2.11.92.0.10: > 1. Update from binutils 2001 1121. > 2. Fix a linker symbol version bug for common symbols. > 3. Update handling relocations against the discarded sections. You may > need to apply the kernel patch enclosed here to your kernel source. If > you still see things like > drivers/char/char.o(.data+0x46b4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded > section .text.exit' > in the final kernel link, that means you have compiled a driver into > the kernel which has a reference to the symbol in a discarded section. > Kernel 2.4.17 or above should work fine. > H.J. Sorry, I should have specified my kernel *IS* recently (Monday) from linux-mips.sourceforge.net. And it was previously sync'd to oss.sgi.com on Sunday, 21Apr02. VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 18 EXTRAVERSION = -mips Hence my befuddlement. I'll fix the cc list to l-m-k. Geoff -- Geoffrey Espin espin@idiom.com --