From: Martin Habets <errandir_news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:02:29 +0100 > OK, I am less confused now: the crux of the matter is that modpost only > checks the relocatable sections. i386 vmlinux has none, so modpost does > no checking on it (it does on the modules). > However, sparc vmlinux has plenty of relocatable sections because it is > being built with 'ld -r' (to allow for btfixup processing). > So for sparc, modpost does do a lot of checking. Sure enough, running > modpost on arch/sparc/boot/image yields no output (i.e. all is well). Thanks for figuring this out, I'll apply your original patch now that I understand what's going on :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
