From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:19:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Some Modules fail w/ unresolved cpu_info__per_cpu Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:45:48 +0200, Christian Cotte-Barrot wrote: >I found that the exported symbol name via /proc/ksyms is in fact: > cpu_info__per_cpu_R__ver_cpu_info__per_cpu > >Then I did not ask much more questions to me trying to find the root >cause of the problem within the kernel sources and I just added the >following trivial modification in the driver's code: >#define cpu_info__per_cpu cpu_info__per_cpu_R__ver_cpu_info__per_cpu > >With this workaround insmod didn't complain anymore about "cpu_info__per_cpu" >and the driver works correctly. > >But I am agree it is just a workaround and we shouldn't have to >modify drivers's code for such problem. Arrghh, don't do that! FAQ: http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8.