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PATCH Applied Luck, Tony 2 participants 2 messages Jun 19, 2003 Agpgart driver

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Tony> undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded
section .exit.text'

Tony> message. Is this related to the warning about using
an old linker?

Not likely. It sounds like a driver is failing to use __exit_p() (see linux/init.h).

The offending driver is i460-agp.c. Patch attached.

-Tony

===== drivers/char/agp/i460-agp.c 1.26 vs edited =====

drivers/char/agp/i460-agp.c +1 -1
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@
 	.name		= "agpgart-intel-i460",
 	.id_table	= agp_intel_i460_pci_table,
 	.probe		= agp_intel_i460_probe,
-	.remove		= agp_intel_i460_remove,
+	.remove		= __exit_p(agp_intel_i460_remove),
 };
 
 static int __init agp_intel_i460_init(void)
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Tony> undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded

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section .exit.text'

Tony> message. Is this related to the warning about using

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an old linker?

Not likely. It sounds like a driver is failing to use __exit_p() (see linux/init.h).

Tony> The offending driver is i460-agp.c. Patch attached.

Applied, thanks.

	--david