Either insmod or depmod should complain if it can detect a scenario like this. Matt -- Matthew D. Dharm Senior Software Designer Momentum Computer Inc. 1815 Aston Ave. Suite 107 (760) 431-8663 X-115 Carlsbad, CA 92008-7310 Momentum Works For You www.momenco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com > [mailto:owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com]On Behalf Of Tommy S. > Christensen > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:31 AM > To: Matthew Dharm > Cc: Kevin Paul Herbert; Linux-MIPS > Subject: Re: Is this a toolchain bug? > > > Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > > So, we've got a problem somewhere in the module handling. > Either the > > symbol wasn't being relocated properly, or it wasn't > being allocated > > properly, or something. I'm not an expert in this region of the > > kernel, but my guess is that we're going to see this more and more > > often, so someone with a clue should take a look at this. > > To me, this looks like a problem with common symbols that I have run > into a couple of times (I think it was in i2o). > > Compiling with -fno-common or linking with -d worked for me. > (Or avoid having uninitialized global variables.) > > I guess insmod should actually complain in this case ?! > > -Tommy >
