[BusyBox] modutils problem with busybox_1_00pre8

[Ritesh Banerjee]

Hi
  did anyone face a crash problem with insmod with
large object files ? (i am using MIPS with Linux
2.4.20 and uclibc). Stripping the object of symbols
creates a smaller object file that works fine.

Regards
Ritesh

> Hi Oleg
>   I also posted about this problem for MIPS platform
> sometime back -> subsequently, Eric told me about
the
> broken syscall() in uclibc, so query_module() fails
> for lsmod, insmod etc.
> 
>   This is easily fixed (and is also patched in
> module_syscalls.c in CVS) by #if 0 out the functions
> in that file foe uclibc.
> 
> #ifndef __UCLIBC__
> ....
> ....
> #endif
> 
>   making this change works fine for me - except that
> insmod xyz.o crashes if the xyz.o is large.
Stripping
> xyz.o (strip --strip-unneeded xyz.o) and making a
much
> smaller object, allows insmod to work fine.
> 
> Regards
> Ritesh

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