Re: 2.6.26-rc1 on x86: ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text'

[H. Peter Anvin]

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> The resulting kernel hasn't broken on me yet, however.
>
> A search through the LKML archives showed that this was reported
> for 2.6.25-rc3-mm1, but I couldn't find any discussion about it
> after that:
>
> <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120470303728010&w=2>
>
> The .config causing this warning is available in
> <http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/ale/config-2.6.26-rc1>

This is because the organization of the file was changed, and the linker 
script wasn't changed to match:

SECTIONS
{
        . = HEADER_OFFSET;
        .header : {
                 *(.header)
        }

        . = 0;
        .text : {
                 *(.text*)
        }

This is crap; the sections should be listed *in order* so the linker can 
warn properly when something bad happens.

The code should be correct; reorganizing the linker script correctly 
should fix the problem.

	-hpa
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