On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:59:11PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > arch/mips/oprofile/common.c defines several symbols (op_model_mipsxx and > op_model_rm9000) with __attribute__((weak)). It then assumes that ELF > linking conventions will prevail and there will be no problems if they > are undefined. > > The problem is if you try to load oprofile as a module. The kernel > module linker evidentially does not understand weak symbols and refuses > to load the module because they are undefined. Actually it contains code to handle weak symbols so this is a bit surprising not last because STB_WEAK handling happen in the generic module loader code and is being used by other architectures as well. So if there's a problem with the module loader I'd prefer to solve that instead of starting to kludge around it. What compiler exactly are you using btw? Ralf
