On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:09:03PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > index ded7ca2..e0a56fb 100644 > --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > @@ -9,10 +9,46 @@ > /* Align . to a 8 byte boundary equals to maximum function alignment. */ > #define ALIGN_FUNCTION() . = ALIGN(8) > > +/* The actual configuration determine if the init/exit sections > + * are handled as text/data or they can be discarded (which > + * often happens at runtime) > + */ > +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG > +#define DEV_KEEP(sec) *(.dev##sec) > +#define DEV_DISCARD(sec) > +#else > +#define DEV_KEEP(sec) > +#define DEV_DISCARD(sec) *(.dev##sec) > +#endif > + Using your kbuild.git, these blow up for me: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 sh4-linux-ld:arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds:364: ignoring invalid character `#' in script sh4-linux-ld:arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds:364: ignoring invalid character `#' in script sh4-linux-ld:arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds:364: ignoring invalid character `#' in script sh4-linux-ld:arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds:364: ignoring invalid character `#' in script sh4-linux-ld:arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds:381: ignoring invalid character `#' in script sh4-linux-ld:arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds:381: ignoring invalid character `#' in script sh4-linux-ld:arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds:381: ignoring invalid character `#' in script ... This comes out as: .text : { *(.text.head) . = ALIGN(8); *(.text) *(.text.init.refok) *(.exit.text.refok) *(.dev##init.text) *(.dev##exit.text) . = ALIGN(8); __sched_text_start = .; *(.sched.text) __sched_text_end = .; . = ALIGN(8); __lock_text_start = .; *(.spinlock.text) __lock_text_end = .; . = ALIGN(8); __kprobes_text_start = .; *(.kprobes.text) __kprobes_text_end = .; *(.fixup) *(.gnu.warning) ... so the ## is being taken directly rather than acting as a concatenation. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html