From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757204AbYEJUTI (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2008 16:19:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754032AbYEJUS4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2008 16:18:56 -0400 Received: from aun.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.36]:54681 "EHLO aun.it.uu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753216AbYEJUSz (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2008 16:18:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18470.787.498329.144701@harpo.it.uu.se> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 22:18:27 +0200 From: Mikael Pettersson To: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org Subject: 2.6.26-rc1 on x86: ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text' X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Building kernel 2.6.26-rc1 on FC6/i386 causes: ld -m elf_i386 -T arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.lds arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.o arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakemain.o arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/video-mode.o arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/copy.o arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/video-vga.o arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/video-vesa.o arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/video-bios.o -o arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.elf ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text' ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text' ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text' This is with gcc-4.2.3 and binutils-2.17.50.0.6-5.fc6 20061020. The resulting kernel hasn't broken on me yet, however. A search through the LKML archives showed that this was reported for 2.6.25-rc3-mm1, but I couldn't find any discussion about it after that: The .config causing this warning is available in /Mikael