Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 build issue: ia64 link error

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Sep 07 2007 - 07:02:27 EST


> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:34:59 -0700 "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> 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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