insmod ipv6 freezes current linuxppc-2.5 and 2.5-benh

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 16:55, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:32:52PM +0100, Harald Welte wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:54:38PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > > Interesting. Same machine here and I use 2.6 everyday :)
> >
> > The problem seems to be gcc-related. Debian testing seems to have
> > installed gcc-3.3.2 (yes, maybe not the best compiler for a kernel
> > anyway) per default.
> >
> > compiling the same kernel with gcc-2.95 results in a working ipv6
> > module.
>
> I did some more testing:
>
> Compiles with gcc-3.3.2 and gcc-3.2.3 result in a broken kernel,
> gcc-3.0.4 and gcc-2.95.4 work fine.

I've been running Ben's tree built with gcc-3.3 for a while (since
test7-ish) without problems:

daenzer at thor|16:55:01> cat /proc/version                               ~
Linux version 2.6.0-test11-benh (daenzer at thor) (gcc version 3.3.2
(Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 29 14:07:02 CET 2003
daenzer at thor|16:55:43> lsmod|grep ip                                   ~
ipv6                  290072  15


What version of binutils do you have? Current from testing here.


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