From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Build Fails on 2.6.24-rc6-mm1[drivers/net/iseries_veth.ko] linking error
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:39:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080109193906.GA14416@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080109191456.GB6880@uranus.ravnborg.org>
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:14:56PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:44:04PM +0530, Sudhir Kumar wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > Build fails on my Power Machine with following error message.
> >
> >
> > HOSTLD arch/powerpc/boot/dtc
> > WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pseries
> > WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pmac
> > strip -s -R .comment vmlinux -o arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.iseries
> > Building modules, stage 2.
> > MODPOST 264 modules
> > ERROR: ".driver_add_kobj" [drivers/net/iseries_veth.ko] undefined!
> > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> > make: *** [modules] Error 2
>
> driver_add_kobj has a single user - iseries_veth. It is even documented
> in the comment in the file.
> And you build iseries_veth as a module but driver_add_kobj is not exported
> which is why you get this modpost error.
>
> Workaround: make the driver built-in
> Fix: export driver_add_kobj or replace usage in iseries_veth.
I'll properly export this symbol, that's the right fix.
Sorry about this,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-09 10:14 Build Fails on 2.6.24-rc6-mm1[drivers/net/iseries_veth.ko] linking error Sudhir Kumar
2008-01-09 19:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-09 19:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
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