Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.5.7-pre2 -- kernel.o(.data+0x300): undefined

[David S. Miller]

   From: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>
   Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:15:33 -0800 (PST)
   
   On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
   > This is what Linus threw out before - when David wanted to use it
   > to remove all the intermodule crap.
   > 
   > It doesn't work with some architecture binutils
   
   How true is that these days, though?

It is still true, you will break the sparc64 link if you put that
stuff in again.  It isn't COFF or a.out, it is elf but there are
bugs in the tools.  And these are the only tools I happen to trust
for getting reliable kernels built.