From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 build issue: ia64 link error
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 04:01:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070907040104.fad5fc70.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A025B103D@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:34:59 -0700 "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> > local symbol 0: discarded in section `.exit.text' from arch/ia64/kernel/built-in.o
>
> This usually means that there is a static __exit function (or __devexit etc.)
> somewhere in the object being linked. The error message is pretty unhelpful
> in figuring out *where* in the module. Look at the 'mm' patches that touch
> arch/ia64/kernel to see if one of them tinkers with __exit* attributes.
>
Confused. There are >2500 static __exit functions in the tree, including
ones like
arch/ia64/kernel/esi.c:static void __exit esi_exit (void)
Could we have some more details on what you think has gone wrong here?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-07 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 18:35 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 build issue: ia64 link error Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-07 7:34 ` Luck, Tony
2007-09-07 11:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-09-08 7:35 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-08 7:50 ` Satyam Sharma
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