Re: Lots of unexpected non-allocatable section warnings

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 08:03:32PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > 
> > > Cannot reproduce here..
> > 
> > Given the name of the section, I presume it is somewhat SUSE-specific.
> > I'm running openSUSE 11.1.
> Likely - I could not reprodcue with your config.
> 
> > > Can you send me your config so I can try to see if this is toolchain
> > > version related.
> > 
> > Config attached.
> > 
> > > Also what version of gcc/binutils are you using?
> > 
> > $ gcc --version
> > gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]
> > 
> > $ ld -v
> > GNU ld (GNU Binutils; openSUSE 11.1) 2.19
> > 
> > > Is this x86 and 32/64 bit?
> > 
> > x86, 64 bit. If you need anything else, let me know.
> 
> Can you send me (off-list) the .o + .ko files
> for one of the failing modules.
> I like to see what the section contains - or at least the flags.
> I do not know on top of my head the commands so
> with the .o faile available I expect to figure it out.

Thanks for the .o file!

This is due to the SUSE specific section as you expected.
We ignore sections named ".comment" but not ".comment" sections
with something appended to the name.

Can you please try appended patch and let me know if it fixes it for you.

Thanks,
	Sam