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Message-Id: <20070907040104.fad5fc70.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 04:01:04 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 build issue: ia64 link error
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:34:59 -0700 "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com> wrote:
> > local symbol 0: discarded in section `.exit.text' from arch/ia64/kernel/built-in.o
>
> This usually means that there is a static __exit function (or __devexit etc.)
> somewhere in the object being linked. The error message is pretty unhelpful
> in figuring out *where* in the module. Look at the 'mm' patches that touch
> arch/ia64/kernel to see if one of them tinkers with __exit* attributes.
>
Confused. There are >2500 static __exit functions in the tree, including
ones like
arch/ia64/kernel/esi.c:static void __exit esi_exit (void)
Could we have some more details on what you think has gone wrong here?
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