From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org (hellhawk.shadowen.org [80.68.90.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7888BDDE27 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:41:03 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:40:50 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft To: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 -- powerpc link failure Message-ID: <20070925134050.GA8447@shadowen.org> References: <20070918011841.2381bd93.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070919092848.GG973@shadowen.org> <20070919174403.GC3115@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070919174403.GC3115@uranus.ravnborg.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:44:03PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:28:48AM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > I am seeing this strange link error from a PowerMac G5 (powerpc): > > > > [...] > > KSYM .tmp_kallsyms2.S > > AS .tmp_kallsyms2.o > > LD vmlinux.o > > ld: dynreloc miscount for fs/built-in.o, section .opd > > ld: can not edit opd Bad value > > make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1 > > We have had this issue before. > Try to see: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=045e72acf16054c4ed2760e9a8edb19a08053af1 > > Here it was caused by a weak declaration that was superflous. > > I expect the workaround to be equally simple this time - or I hope so. Yep, will investigate this as suggested. As this problem seems to persist thru 2.6.23-rc8-mm1 I will report it again there and my findings. -apw