linux-kernel - Re: discarded `.exit.text' debugging?

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Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:28:12 -0400
From:	"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
To:	"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Development" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: discarded `.exit.text' debugging?

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Last night I got these in my build logs:
>
> | `.exit.text' referenced in section `.init.text' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
> | `.exit.text' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
>
> i.e. not much context. Is there an easy way to find out who's the
> offender?
>
> Thx!
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> 						Geert
>

Look in .built-in.o.cmd for the files included in that object
file. It's a start. Something like

../drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_symbol.c

With an exit(EX_SOFTWARE) or similar that was not supposed to
be included in the kernel build because it is for user-mode
build code.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.25.17 on an i686 machine (4787.24 BogoMips).
My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
_

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