From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:50:36 +0100 > With a sparc64 defconfig modified to set CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n > the following error happened during link of vmlinux: > > local symbol 0: discarded in section `.devexit.text' from drivers/built-in.o > local symbol 1: discarded in section `.devexit.text' from drivers/built-in.o > > (The error message above is from kbuild.git but it happens in mainline too) > > The error happens becase there is a reference from .text/.data to > a function marked __devexit. With CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n all code marked > __devexit are discarded and the linker complains. > > It was tracked down to sparcspkr.c which were missing __devexit_p() > around the function pointers. > > Unfortunately modpost did not catch this since modpost do not warn about > references from .data to .devexit from variables named *_driver. > > Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied, thanks Sam. - 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
