Re: insmod problems

[Michael Shmulevich <michaels@jungo.com>]

Ralf Baechle wrote:

> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:13:43PM +0300, Shay Deloya wrote:
>
>
> > I have an old problem came up again and the old solution aren't helping.
> > Relocation overflow of type 4 for
> > Is it insmod knowen bugs that the relocation is done in bad way or 
> > a linker/compiler bug. I'm using compiler: egcs ver 1.0.3a
> > I'm checking this problem at the moment and looking for insmod bug.
>
> You'll have to upgrade to very current binutils which for mips*-linux
> targets default to elf32-trad{big,little}mips, not IRIX ELF format.  Also
> it seems your modutils are a bit rotten, get the latest from ftp.kernel.org.
>
>   Ralf
On the same topic: same source (!!) 'insmod' executable compiled with 
new (2.10) binutils doesn't exibit such relocation problem.
What may be causing 'insmod' to be dependant on binutils which compile 
it? The module *.o is exactly same as it was before.

Sincerely yours,
Michael Shmulevich
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