acpi module failing to load in 1.9.0 preview #4?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue May 29 09:44:41 PDT 2007


On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:42:08AM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> But a question remains: why the asm code can't see a static variable
> with initializer only when it's compiled with GCC4.1?

Because it is a module and GCC 3.4 still would have created the symbol.
At least that's my bet. The in-kernel linker has a few flaws, like not
checking visibility correctly.

> 
> Cheers.





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