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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:29:16 +0200
From: Petko Manolov <petkan@dce.bg>
Organization: Deltacom Electronics
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To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: changed section attributes
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Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> >Changing the declaration in linux/module.h to ".modinfo,"a""
> >fixed the problem, but i noticed that the author said that
> >"we want .modinfo to not be allocated"
> 
> Historically that was the only way of preventing the .modinfo section
> from being included in modules when they were loaded into the kernel.
> An alternative is to allow .modinfo to be allocated and have modutils
> treat it as non-allocated.  This feature was added to modutils 2.3.19
> on October 22 (bleeding edge toolchains for IA64 are "fun") so anybody
> who is annoyed by the warning messages can apply this patch.

[snip]
 
> -/* The attributes of a section are set the first time the section is
> -   seen; we want .modinfo to not be allocated.  */
> -
> -__asm__(".section .modinfo\n\t.previous");
> -
>  /* Define the module variable, and usage macros.  */
>  extern struct module __this_module;


This is exactly what i did (excluding removing of the comment ;-)

I wonder why the compiler decides to add ".section
.modinfo,"a",@progbits"
May be this is the thing which should be fixed.


	Petkan
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