On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:09:57PM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> > drivers/net/net.o(.data+0xd4): undefined reference to `local symbols in
> > discarded section .text.exit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> > It sounds like this is a problem with ld or as, but I'm not sure. Any
> > suggestions?
> $editor arch/i386/vmlinux.lds
>
> you'll see starting at line 67 this:
>
> /* Sections to be discarded */
> /DISCARD/ : {
> *(.text.exit)
> *(.data.exit)
> *(.exitcall.exit)
> }
>
> remove this:
>
> *(.text.exit)
This may get rid of the compile error, but this is *not* the correct way
to fix this problem. The correct fix is to run reference_discarded [1]
to find out which driver is causing the problem, and add __devexit
tags where relevant.
Dave
[1] http://kernelnewbies.org/scripts/reference_discarded.pl
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