[oe] kernel vs. binutils: .exit.text problem

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Michael,

Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 12:43:36 AM, you wrote:

> I'm building a 2.6.17.7 kernel for arm using gcc 4.1.1 and binutils
> 2.17:

> | make[1]: Leaving directory kernel-2.6.17.7 |   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> | `.exit.text' referenced in section `.init.text' of drivers/built-in.o:
> defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
> | make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

> The same kernel is compiled fine (and runs, btw.) w/ binutils 2.15.94.1.

> I can't downgrade binutils because the older binutils don't compile
> other stuff w/ recent gcc's. binutils 2.16 even SIGSEGVs for some
> packages.

> Older binutils treated this as a warning, not an error. Do you have any
> idea how I could revert binutils 2.17 to this behaviour? Or
> alternatively, how can I find and fix the offending
> driver in the said kernel?

  That's kernel issue, upgrade to 2.6.18 (even rc) ;-) . On HH.org, we faced
this with pxa2xx_udc driver. Fix was already in mainline, so we just backported
patch:
http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a353678d3136306c1d00f0d2319de1dac8a6b1db
(actually applied as is).


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 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com