From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: xavier prabhu <xavier_prabhu@linuxmail.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: __up and __down not found in 2.25 kernel
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:18:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040325101836.GB27145@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040325083629.8255C39834A@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com>
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:36:29PM +0800, xavier prabhu wrote:
> I'm using a module which is developed for 2.22 kernel.
> This module uses __up and __down semaphore functions.
> While I insmod this module with 2.25 kernel,
> I get the following error message
> "insmod: unresolved symbol __up
> insmod: unresolved symbol __down"
>
> I checked the semaphore.c. It doesn't define these two functions.
> Is there any way to work around this issue.
Seems I wasn't yet awake in my previous posting ...
__up and __down are internal semaphore functions. Do not use them at all;
any such use is not portable. Looks like you're using a broken module
from i386 or so.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-25 10:18 UTC|newest]
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2004-03-25 8:36 __up and __down not found in 2.25 kernel xavier prabhu
2004-03-25 9:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-03-25 10:18 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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2004-03-25 9:51 xavier prabhu
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