Re: build failure in 2.4.20

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:09:57PM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
 > > drivers/net/net.o(.data+0xd4): undefined reference to `local symbols in
 > > discarded section .text.exit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
 > > It sounds like this is a problem with ld or as, but I'm not sure.  Any
 > > suggestions?
 > $editor arch/i386/vmlinux.lds
 > 
 > you'll see starting at line 67 this:
 > 
 >   /* Sections to be discarded */
 >   /DISCARD/ : {
 >         *(.text.exit)
 >         *(.data.exit)
 >         *(.exitcall.exit)
 >         }
 > 
 > remove this:
 > 
 >         *(.text.exit)

This may get rid of the compile error, but this is *not* the correct way
to fix this problem. The correct fix is to run reference_discarded [1]
to find out which driver is causing the problem, and add __devexit
tags where relevant.

		Dave

[1] http://kernelnewbies.org/scripts/reference_discarded.pl

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