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From: Ian Soanes <ians@lineo.com>
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Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes... the modules.