Re: 2.5.59 vmlinux.lds.S change broke modules

[J Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com>]

A confirmation from the peanut gallery -

2.5.59 oopses during boot, 2.5.59 plus the
vmlinux.lds.S  patch boots and runs fine -

Also Red Hat 8.0 -

Joe

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:11:01PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
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>>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
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>>>This oops occurs for every module, not just af_packet.ko, at
>>>resolve_symbol()'s first call to __find_symbol().
>>>      
>>>
>>Okay, the details I received so far seem to indicate that the appended 
>>patch will fix it, though I didn't get actual confirmation it does.
>>
>>If you experience crashes when loading modules (and have RH 8 binutils), 
>>please give it a shot.
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>It isn't a scientific test since I also just added the 2.5.59-mm1
>patches, but applying this patch seemed to fix my problems.  I'm sending
>this from a kernel running 2.5.59 + mm1 + your patch, built with RH 8.0
>binutils.
>
>cgf
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