Re: strange message with newer binutils during "make modules"

From: Alan Modra (alan@linuxcare.com.au)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 02:36:36 EST

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On Tue, 16 May 2000, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:

> Since upgrading to binutils-2.9.5.0.41 I get messages like this
> during "make modules" in 2.3.99-pre[7-9]:
>
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:8: Warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for
> .modinfo
>
> They also appear with binutils-2.9.5.0.42.
> Should I care about this message?

Yes. (Well somebody should.) It's telling you about a bug, __initdata
used instead of __init, or something like that.

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