Re: 2.6.7-mm6

[David S. Miller]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:34:17 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Third, some naive check for undefined symbols failed to understand the
> > relocation types indicating that a given operand refers to some hard
> > register, which manifest as undefined symbols in ELF executables. A
> > patch to refine its criteria, which I used to build with, follows. rmk
> > and hpa have some other ideas on this undefined symbol issue I've not
> > quite had the opportunity to get a clear statement of yet.
> 
> I converted that to a non-fatal warning due to the same problem on sparc64.

Andrew, Russell posted to us in private email an objdump based
check that didn't trigger for the register declaration case.
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