Re: start___kallsyms missing from i386 vmlinux.lds ?

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:56:08 -0500, 
Paul Gortmaker <[e-mail]> wrote:
>--- linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds~	Fri Jul  7 03:47:07 2000
>+++ linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds	Mon Jan  1 07:55:50 2001
>+  __start___kallsyms = .;	/* All kernel symbols */
>+  __kallsyms : { *(__kallsyms) }
>+  __stop___kallsyms = .;

kernel/module.c defines 
extern const char __start___kallsyms[] __attribute__ ((weak));
extern const char __stop___kallsyms[] __attribute__ ((weak));

The symbols are weak and do not need to be defined.  If gcc is not
honouring __attribute__ ((weak)) then you have a broken or obsolete
version of gcc.  You need at least gcc 2.91.66 for kernel 2.4.