Re: 2.4.20-rc1 [SCSI] local symbols in discarded section .text.exit

[Gabor Z. Papp]

* Gabor Z. Papp <[e-mail]>:

| Linux 2.4.20-rc1
| glibc 2.2.5
| gcc 2.95.4
| GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.10 20021010
| 
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-rc1-ibm/arch/i386/lib'
| ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-rc1-ibm/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o \
|        --start-group \
|        arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \
|         drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o \
|        net/network.o \
|        /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-rc1-ibm/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-rc1-ibm/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-rc1-ibm/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
|        --end-group \
|        -o vmlinux
| drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o(.data+0x3ad4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
| drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o(.data+0x3b14): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
| drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o(.data+0x3b54): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
| make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
| 
| #
| # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
| #
| CONFIG_X86=y
[...]
| CONFIG_SCSI_IPS=y
[...]

Keith Owens wrote a nice perl script to debug, found on http://kernelnewbies.org/scripts/

$ reference_discarded.pl 
Finding objects, 396 objects, ignoring 0 module(s)
Finding conglomerates, ignoring 31 conglomerate(s)
Scanning objects
Error: ./drivers/scsi/ips.o .data refers to 000000d4 R_386_32          .text.exit
Error: ./drivers/scsi/ips.o .data refers to 00000114 R_386_32          .text.exit
Error: ./drivers/scsi/ips.o .data refers to 00000154 R_386_32          .text.exit
Done

Seems like its the IBM ServeRAID support.