Re: porting driver to 2.6, still unknown relocs... :(

[LGW <large@lilymarleen.de>]

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Mer, 2003-08-27 at 16:34, LGW wrote:
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>>The driver is mostly a wrapper around a generic driver released by the 
>>manufacturer, and that's written in C++. But it worked like this for the 
>>2.4.x kernel series, so I think it has something todo with the new 
>>module loader code. Possibly ld misses something when linking the object 
>>specific stuff like constructors?
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>The new module loader is kernel side, it may well not know some of the
>C++ specific relocation types. 
>
To you think it's possible to remove those relocations completely, so 
that the whole C++ stuff is linked "without" any more open relocations?

After all, those are only "helper functions" that could be linked 
"statically", or am I mistaken?

I don't have such deep knowledge of the C++ linking process, so I can't 
answer that question myself.

The Generic Driver is not public available I think, but you could get it 
here:
http://space.virgilio.it/g_pochini@virgilio.it/ea.html (site with the 
patches for alsa)
http://space.virgilio.it/g_pochini@virgilio.it/eagd-0.6.0.tar.bz2 (the 
original generic driver code)

thanks,
  Lars