Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:05:47 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [BUG]2.5.49-ac1 - more info on make error |
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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
| On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote: | > | > | Knowing that modules are still broken, I changed all modules to be | > | built-in and dropped all support for modules and retried the compile. I | > | have disabled all but the features I really want to test on the new | > | kernel, so I will not be reducing the features any more. | > | > I haven't seen any replies or fixes for this. Have you? | | No. I have pretty much assumed that there is no interest in having this | work. The modules are broken to the point where either the author or | someone who has documentation on how they should work will have to fix | them. Clearly the policy of "if you want your change in the kernel you | have to fix what it breaks" is dead.
This is not the borked-modules problem; it's different.
| > drivers/built-in.o(.data+0x31e14): undefined reference to `local symbols | > in discarded section .exit.text' | > | > Please visit http://www.kernelnewbies.org/scripts/ and download | > the 'reference-discarded.pl' script, run it, and let us know where the | > problem is. | | I posted that to the list, if it didn't make it for any reason I can't | easily recreate it, the machine has been converted to BSD, the 2.5 work is | on a removable drive which is removed, since we can't make any progress | with it for the moment.
whatever. Adrian Bunk & Jeff Garzik have now posted patches for it.
| It was the old tulip driver which had the problem, de21{something}x.c as I | recall. Without a doc on what causes that I gave up trying to fix it by | comparing to other modules.
-- ~Randy
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