From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264272AbTLVBTX (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:19:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264278AbTLVBTX (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:19:23 -0500 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:59372 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264272AbTLVBTV (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:19:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:08:30 +1100 From: Rusty Russell To: Richard Henderson , Nathan Poznick Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle R_ALPHA_REFLONG relocation on Alpha (2.6.0-test11) Message-Id: <20031222120830.718a305a.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20031218010203.GA13385@twiddle.net> References: <20031213003841.GA5213@wang-fu.org> <20031217121010.GA11062@twiddle.net> <20031217193124.GA4837@wang-fu.org> <20031218010203.GA13385@twiddle.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:02:03 -0800 Richard Henderson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:31:24PM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote: > > my next question is if this is a known/intended side effect -- enabling > > CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO means that modules cannot be used? > > No. This means there's a bug in the generic bits of the module > loaders, that they're not discarding debugging sections. Agree with Richard, unless toolchain is setting SHF_ALLOC on those sections for some weird reason. Nathan, can you mail me (off-list) a module which needs this? I'll take a look. Thanks, Rusty. -- there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy