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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: xavier prabhu <xavier_prabhu@linuxmail.org>
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Subject: Re: __up and __down not found in 2.25 kernel
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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