PATCH: Discard .exitcall.exit for alpha.

PATCH: Discard .exitcall.exit for alpha.

[H . J . Lu]

Hi Linus,

The upcoming binutils will flag relocations against discarded sections
as fatal errors. Here is a patch for the alpha linker script. 


H.J.
----
--- linux/arch/alpha/vmlinux.lds.in.discard	Thu Nov 22 00:30:16 2001
+++ linux/arch/alpha/vmlinux.lds.in	Thu Nov 22 00:30:47 2001
@@ -92,5 +92,5 @@ SECTIONS
   .debug_typenames 0 : { *(.debug_typenames) }
   .debug_varnames  0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }
 
-  /DISCARD/ : { *(.text.exit) *(.data.exit) }
+  /DISCARD/ : { *(.text.exit) *(.data.exit) *(.exitcall.exit) }
 }

Re: PATCH: Discard .exitcall.exit for alpha.

[H . J . Lu]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:43:02AM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> The upcoming binutils will flag relocations against discarded sections
> as fatal errors. Here is a patch for the alpha linker script. 
> 
> 

Here is another patch. serial_remove_one will be discarded if serial
is not rebuilt as a module.


H.J.
----
--- linux/drivers/char/serial.c.exit	Mon Aug 13 01:15:08 2001
+++ linux/drivers/char/serial.c	Fri Nov 16 17:08:32 2001
@@ -4741,7 +4741,9 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, serial_pci_tbl)
 static struct pci_driver serial_pci_driver = {
        name:           "serial",
        probe:          serial_init_one,
+#ifdef MODULE
        remove:	       serial_remove_one,
+#endif
        id_table:       serial_pci_tbl,
 };