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.
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