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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Jan Pospisil <honik@civ.zcu.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bug-binutils@gnu.org
Subject: Re: undefined references when compiling kernel with binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:24:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25992.1011763492@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:43:16 BST." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201221421050.20914-100000@aither.zcu.cz>

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:43:16 +0100 (CET), 
Jan Pospisil <honik@civ.zcu.cz> wrote:
>Hello, it has been posted so many times, and according to Richard Gooch it
>should be fixed in 2.4.18-pre3, however I am still having the problem
>undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
>particullary with the CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=y (as a module it works fine).
>In function `bttv_probe':
>drivers/media/media.o(.text.init+0x1745): undefined reference to `local
>symbols in discarded section .text.exit'

That is a real coding bug that the new binutils has found and
highlighted.  bttv_probe() calls bttv_remove() which is defined as
__devexit, bttv_remove() is not there when the code is built in.  Take
it up with the bttv maintainer, it is a coding error, not binutils.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-23  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-22 13:43 Jan Pospisil
2002-01-22 15:18 ` 2.4.17: Hang after IDE detection Liakakis Kostas
2002-01-22 17:38   ` Nils Rennebarth
2002-01-22 17:50     ` Lionel Bouton
2002-01-23  8:51     ` Liakakis Kostas
2002-01-23  5:24 ` Keith Owens [this message]

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