Re: Busybox and automatic module loading

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:54 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 19:38 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 00:57 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > >
> > > > are you generating the device nodes by hand or relying on something
> > > > else ? mdev currently will not place the device nodes in a subdir as
> > > > would be required by alsa-lib.
> > >
> > > No, I'm using udev. The module loading stuff was not the issue I'm sure
> > > anyway. And the OSS emulation appears to work perfectly.
> >
> > i'd just build everything into the kernel except for the module you're
> > developing ... a lot simpler that way
>
> Why? I'm not sure I follow what you mean.

because then there is no question of whether you loaded things properly ... 
they're built into the kernel, end of story

> > > > > Maybe something wrong with my driver, (though oss emulation works
> > > > > very well), but nobody is being very communicative. I don't think
> > > > > there is much cross compiling of alsa going on out there!
> > > >
> > > > are you using uClibc or glibc ?  we're cross-compiling alsa-lib for
> > > > Blackfin/uClibc and it seems to be working for us.  our drivers are
> > > > varying degrees of working, but that is a driver problem ;)
> > >
> > > uClibc. I suppose my issue might be driver related, but if so nobody
> > > can point me as to where. And, as I say, the OSS emulation works.
> > >
> > > Maybe you could point me to the configure script you are using?
> >
> > make sure you turn off version stuff: --with-versioned=no
>
> Is this for alsa-lib or something else?

yes, for alsa-lib ... if you try to use symbol versioning with alsa-lib under 
uClibc (since uClibc does not handle symbol versioning information), it wont 
work properly
-mike

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