From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:52:51 +0100 (BST) Received: from eth13.com-link.com ([IPv6:::ffff:208.242.241.164]:54947 "EHLO real.realitydiluted.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:52:51 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=realitydiluted.com) by real.realitydiluted.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BH5mJ-0006Ul-00; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:52:00 -0500 Message-ID: <408965D2.7010703@realitydiluted.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:52:02 -0400 From: "Steven J. Hill" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: santosh khare CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: relocation overflow of type 4 __copy_user References: <20040423184441.36215.qmail@web10707.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040423184441.36215.qmail@web10707.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4860 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: sjhill@realitydiluted.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips santosh khare wrote: > > When I am trying to insmod iptables.o I am getting this error multiple > times. > > relocation overflow of type 4 __copy_user > relocation overflow of type 4 __copy_user > relocation overflow of type 4 __copy_user > ......... > > I was getting similar errors for printk etc but they disappeared after I > changed the CFLAGS for arch/mips/Makefile and included -mno-abicalls. > This flag is already included by default in both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. How did you compile your module? -Steve