From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
len.brown@intel.com, Paul Bristow <paul@paulbristow.net>,
mpm@selenic.com, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl,
dtor_core@ameritech.net, kkeil@suse.de,
linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, philb@gnu.org, gregkh@suse.de,
dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: kbuild: Section mismatch warnings
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:38:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060217233848.GA26630@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060217233253.GN4422@stusta.de>
Hi Adrian
> > I did not find a way to look up the offending symbol but maybe some elf
> > expert can help?
> >...
>
> I'm not an ELF expert, but simply checking all __init functions in this
> files finds that this seems to be the following:
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> ...
> static struct acpi_driver asus_hotk_driver = {
> .name = ACPI_HOTK_NAME,
> .class = ACPI_HOTK_CLASS,
> .ids = ACPI_HOTK_HID,
> .ops = {
> .add = asus_hotk_add,
> .remove = asus_hotk_remove,
> },
> };
> ...
> static int __init asus_hotk_add(struct acpi_device *device)
> ...
>
Correct.
What I wanted was modpost to tell that the symbol being referenced in
the .data section was 'asus_hotk_add' and not just an offset after
asus_hotk_driver.
What is needed is a link from the RELOCATION RECORD to the symbol table.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-17 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-17 21:48 kbuild: Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-17 22:47 ` kbuild: Section mismatch warnings Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-17 23:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-17 23:38 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2006-02-17 23:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-18 0:14 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-02-18 21:25 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-18 0:09 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 0:48 ` David Brownell
2006-02-18 0:57 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 20:32 ` David Brownell
2006-02-19 0:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-22 5:09 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 0:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-02-18 12:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-18 13:34 ` Russell King
2006-02-19 11:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-19 12:59 ` [v4l-dvb-maintainer] " Johannes Stezenbach
2006-02-19 13:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-19 13:30 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-02-25 15:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-19 14:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-19 22:38 ` Rusty Russell
2006-02-19 22:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-18 22:12 ` kbuild: Andi Kleen
2006-02-18 22:38 ` kbuild: Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-18 23:41 ` kbuild: Sam Ravnborg
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