Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763997AbXISRmv (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:42:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760159AbXISRmk (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:42:40 -0400 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:36249 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751625AbXISRmj (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:42:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:44:03 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 -- powerpc link failure Message-ID: <20070919174403.GC3115@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20070918011841.2381bd93.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070919092848.GG973@shadowen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070919092848.GG973@shadowen.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 904 Lines: 25 On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:28:48AM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > I am seeing this strange link error from a PowerMac G5 (powerpc): > > [...] > KSYM .tmp_kallsyms2.S > AS .tmp_kallsyms2.o > LD vmlinux.o > ld: dynreloc miscount for fs/built-in.o, section .opd > ld: can not edit opd Bad value > make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1 We have had this issue before. Try to see: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=045e72acf16054c4ed2760e9a8edb19a08053af1 Here it was caused by a weak declaration that was superflous. I expect the workaround to be equally simple this time - or I hope so. Sam - 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/