kernel: use LDFLAGS when linking modules Currently, linking module objects is simply using $(LD), assuming that the default emulation is correct for the current architecture. However, that might not be the case when the toolchain default is not the same as the current arch. For example, if the toolchain defaults to i386 and is capable of x86_64, and we're targetting x86_64 (or the opposite), the link would fail because the ld emulation is incorrect: .../i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf64-x86-64 (.../nvidia-driver-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-frontend.o) to format elf32-i386 (.../nvidia-driver-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nv-interface.o) is not supported Add use of $(LDFLAGS) when doing the link, as the kernel provides the proper emulation in those. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" --- Issue reported upstream: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/958653/ diff -durN nvidia-driver-370.23.orig/kernel/nvidia/nvidia.Kbuild nvidia-driver-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nvidia.Kbuild --- nvidia-driver-370.23.orig/kernel/nvidia/nvidia.Kbuild 2016-08-09 01:57:50.000000000 +0200 +++ nvidia-driver-370.23/kernel/nvidia/nvidia.Kbuild 2016-08-20 12:25:02.780233423 +0200 @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ always += $(NVIDIA_INTERFACE) $(obj)/$(NVIDIA_INTERFACE): $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(NVIDIA_OBJECTS)) - $(LD) -r -o $@ $^ + $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -r -o $@ $^ # diff -durN nvidia-driver-370.23.orig/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset.Kbuild nvidia-driver-370.23/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset.Kbuild --- nvidia-driver-370.23.orig/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset.Kbuild 2016-08-09 01:43:19.000000000 +0200 +++ nvidia-driver-370.23/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset.Kbuild 2016-08-20 12:25:39.596772662 +0200 @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ always += $(NVIDIA_MODESET_INTERFACE) $(obj)/$(NVIDIA_MODESET_INTERFACE): $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(NVIDIA_MODESET_OBJECTS)) - $(LD) -r -o $@ $^ + $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -r -o $@ $^ # # Register the conftests needed by nvidia-modeset.ko