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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: modpost warning question
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:52:05 +0200
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> >
> >For the popular architectures (i386,x86_64) we discard .exit.text at
> >runtime so here we do not see the error from ld (sadly).
> 
> Fair point, wondering what we do with .exit on PPC, another thing for  
> the list :)

from:
arch/ppc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S:
  /* .exit.text is discarded at runtime, not link time,
     to deal with references from __bug_table */
  .exit.text : { *(.exit.text) }

	Sam