Re: porting driver to 2.6, still unknown relocs... :(

[Stephen Hemminger]

On 27 Aug 2003 16:59:38 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mer, 2003-08-27 at 16:34, LGW wrote:
> > The driver is mostly a wrapper around a generic driver released by the 
> > manufacturer, and that's written in C++. But it worked like this for the 
> > 2.4.x kernel series, so I think it has something todo with the new 
> > module loader code. Possibly ld misses something when linking the object 
> > specific stuff like constructors?
> 
> The new module loader is kernel side, it may well not know some of the
> C++ specific relocation types. 

You did something that was explicitly not supported on 2.4 and it worked,
it broke on 2.6.

The fact that it worked it all on 2.4 was a fluke.

It's time to breakdown, do the right thing and figure out how to rewrite/translate the
C++ code to C.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/