Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263509AbTH0QAa (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:00:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263549AbTH0QAa (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:00:30 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:6049 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263509AbTH0QAX (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:00:23 -0400 Subject: Re: porting driver to 2.6, still unknown relocs... :( From: Alan Cox To: LGW Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3F4CCF85.1020502@lilymarleen.de> References: <3F4CB452.2060207@lilymarleen.de> <20030827081312.7563d8f9.rddunlap@osdl.org> <3F4CCF85.1020502@lilymarleen.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1061999977.22825.71.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 (1.4.3-3) Date: 27 Aug 2003 16:59:38 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 722 Lines: 16 On Mer, 2003-08-27 at 16:34, LGW wrote: > The driver is mostly a wrapper around a generic driver released by the > manufacturer, and that's written in C++. But it worked like this for the > 2.4.x kernel series, so I think it has something todo with the new > module loader code. Possibly ld misses something when linking the object > specific stuff like constructors? The new module loader is kernel side, it may well not know some of the C++ specific relocation types. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/