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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:15:51 +0200
From: LGW <large@lilymarleen.de>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: porting driver to 2.6, still unknown relocs... :(
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Alan Cox wrote:

>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 you think it's possible to remove those relocations completely, so 
that the whole C++ stuff is linked "without" any more open relocations?

After all, those are only "helper functions" that could be linked 
"statically", or am I mistaken?

I don't have such deep knowledge of the C++ linking process, so I can't 
answer that question myself.

The Generic Driver is not public available I think, but you could get it 
here:
http://space.virgilio.it/g_pochini@virgilio.it/ea.html (site with the 
patches for alsa)
http://space.virgilio.it/g_pochini@virgilio.it/eagd-0.6.0.tar.bz2 (the 
original generic driver code)

thanks,
  Lars


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