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From: Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz>
To: Ferry van Steen <freaky@www.bananateam.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partially closed source module, more of gcc/ld question.
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:01:25 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28230000.1042707685@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301160825140.6306-100000@www.bananateam.nl>

Check out the patches for the NVIDIA driver on www.minion.de, there's a 
linker hack in the most recent patch which fixes this.

Andrew

--On Thursday, January 16, 2003 08:29:31 +0100 Ferry van Steen 
<freaky@www.bananateam.nl> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> some of you might have read my message on the promise fasttrak last time.
> I'm sorry to say that I started yelling to them through e-mail and the
> replied now! This is the so manied company that suddenly replies if you
> yell... Oh well, they released some new module, which I want to try later
> on.
>
> Sortta like nvidia, you get a Makefile, some others an object and 3 C
> files. Now for the question. Loading a gcc v2 compiled module into a v3
> compiled kernel causes problems. Is it correct to assume then that if the
> object were compiled with v2, and the C files with v3 and those get linked
> together into a module, that you might experience the same problems?
>
> Is there any way I can see with which version the object was compiled
> (the kernel seems to be able to, or atleast, partially it doesn't give
> specific version just v2 or v3)?
>
> Kind regards
>
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2003-01-16  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-16  7:29 Partially closed source module, more of gcc/ld question Ferry van Steen
2003-01-16  9:01 ` Andrew McGregor [this message]

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