From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755503AbYJTUyQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:54:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752363AbYJTUyA (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:54:00 -0400 Received: from mail91.analogic.com ([12.187.86.31]:54949 "EHLO mail01.analogic.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752227AbYJTUx7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:53:59 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1533 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:53:59 EDT X-AuditID: 0a770115-a8994bb000000e9b-02-48fce9de3811 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 x-originalarrivaltime: 20 Oct 2008 20:28:12.0671 (UTC) FILETIME=[5FC0B8F0:01C932F2] Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: discarded `.exit.text' debugging? Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:28:12 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: discarded `.exit.text' debugging? Thread-Index: Acky8l/H5KFAovgZR72QDlHz1FIOrA== References: From: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" To: "Geert Uytterhoeven" Cc: "Linux Kernel Development" Reply-To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Last night I got these in my build logs: > > | `.exit.text' referenced in section `.init.text' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o > | `.exit.text' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o > > i.e. not much context. Is there an easy way to find out who's the > offender? > > Thx! > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > Look in .built-in.o.cmd for the files included in that object file. It's a start. Something like ../drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_symbol.c With an exit(EX_SOFTWARE) or similar that was not supposed to be included in the kernel build because it is for user-mode build code. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.25.17 on an i686 machine (4787.24 BogoMips). My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/ _ **************************************************************** The information transmitted in this message is confidential and may be privileged. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Analogic Corporation immediately - by replying to this message or by sending an email to DeliveryErrors@analogic.com - and destroy all copies of this information, including any attachments, without reading or disclosing them. Thank you.