Re: [Bug binutils/19421] New: Missing weak symbols in kernel modules on ppc64el

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Alan,

  Have you seen this bug report:

> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19421

>             Summary: Missing weak symbols in kernel modules on ppc64el

> Quite a few symbols in kernel modules on ppc64el are dropped after upgrading to
> binutils 2.25.  This in turn completely breaks module loading on ppc64el
> systems, per this Debian bug report:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808246

It seems that the cause of this was the patch for PR 4317:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4317

Perhaps we need to allow some targets to require that undefined locals 
are preserved ?

Cheers
  Nick