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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, viro@math.psu.edu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.5.7-pre2 -- kernel.o(.data+0x300): undefined reference
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 19:20:01 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020317.192001.103236436.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161011150.31850-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <E16mI91-0006mI-00@the-village.bc.nu> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161011150.31850-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>

   From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
   Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:15:33 -0800 (PST)
   
   On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
   > This is what Linus threw out before - when David wanted to use it
   > to remove all the intermodule crap.
   > 
   > It doesn't work with some architecture binutils
   
   How true is that these days, though?

It is still true, you will break the sparc64 link if you put that
stuff in again.  It isn't COFF or a.out, it is elf but there are
bugs in the tools.  And these are the only tools I happen to trust
for getting reliable kernels built.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-18  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-16  8:02 2.5.7-pre2 -- kernel.o(.data+0x300): undefined reference to `sys_nfsservctl' Miles Lane
2002-03-16  8:53 ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-16 10:16   ` [PATCH] " Alexander Viro
2002-03-16 17:39     ` [PATCH] Re: 2.5.7-pre2 -- kernel.o(.data+0x300): undefined reference Alan Cox
2002-03-16 17:39       ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-16 18:01         ` [PATCH] Re: 2.5.7-pre2 -- kernel.o(.data+0x300): undefined Alan Cox
2002-03-16 18:15       ` [PATCH] Re: 2.5.7-pre2 -- kernel.o(.data+0x300): undefined reference Linus Torvalds
2002-03-18  3:20         ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-03-16 19:18       ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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