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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Jan Pospisil <honik@civ.zcu.cz>
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Subject: Re: undefined references when compiling kernel with binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:43:16 BST."
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:43:16 +0100 (CET), 
Jan Pospisil <honik@civ.zcu.cz> wrote:
>Hello, it has been posted so many times, and according to Richard Gooch it
>should be fixed in 2.4.18-pre3, however I am still having the problem
>undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
>particullary with the CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=y (as a module it works fine).
>In function `bttv_probe':
>drivers/media/media.o(.text.init+0x1745): undefined reference to `local
>symbols in discarded section .text.exit'

That is a real coding bug that the new binutils has found and
highlighted.  bttv_probe() calls bttv_remove() which is defined as
__devexit, bttv_remove() is not there when the code is built in.  Take
it up with the bttv maintainer, it is a coding error, not binutils.

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