From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: LGW <large@lilymarleen.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: porting driver to 2.6, still unknown relocs... :(
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:07:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030827100745.0d944f33.shemminger@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1061999977.22825.71.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On 27 Aug 2003 16:59:38 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mer, 2003-08-27 at 16:34, LGW wrote:
> > The driver is mostly a wrapper around a generic driver released by the
> > manufacturer, and that's written in C++. But it worked like this for the
> > 2.4.x kernel series, so I think it has something todo with the new
> > module loader code. Possibly ld misses something when linking the object
> > specific stuff like constructors?
>
> The new module loader is kernel side, it may well not know some of the
> C++ specific relocation types.
You did something that was explicitly not supported on 2.4 and it worked,
it broke on 2.6.
The fact that it worked it all on 2.4 was a fluke.
It's time to breakdown, do the right thing and figure out how to rewrite/translate the
C++ code to C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-27 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-27 13:38 LGW
2003-08-27 15:13 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-27 15:34 ` LGW
2003-08-27 15:50 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-27 15:59 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-27 16:15 ` LGW
2003-08-27 16:29 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-27 17:25 ` porting driver to 2.6, partly solved LGW
2003-08-27 17:07 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2003-08-27 17:23 ` porting driver to 2.6, still unknown relocs... :( Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-27 17:33 ` LGW
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