From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:04:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:04:22 -0400 Received: from HSE-MTL-ppp72639.qc.sympatico.ca ([64.229.201.194]:51328 "HELO oscar.casa.dyndns.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:04:12 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ed Tomlinson Organization: me To: Wayne Whitney , kaos@ocs.com.au, Ed Tomlinson Subject: Re: missing symbol do_softirq in net moduels for pre-2 Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:04:10 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01060911075200.00993@oscar> <16339.992103452@ocs4.ocs-net> <200106091656.f59Gurx10167@adsl-209-76-109-63.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <200106091656.f59Gurx10167@adsl-209-76-109-63.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060913041000.01756@oscar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 09 June 2001 12:56, Wayne Whitney wrote: > In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, Keith Owens wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > Built -pre2 and noticed most of the modules in net/* are getting > > > a missing symbol for do_softirq. > > > > http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8 > > Hmm, I don't think this is it--I'm seeing the same thing, and I have > tried 'make mrproper'. All symbols are getting versionated except > certain calls to do_softirq() in, e.g., sunrpc.o and the iptables > modules. > > I looked into this, and I believe the problem is due to 2.4.6-pre2's > change to the i386 local_bh_enable() macro--the C version has been > replaced with an assembly language version that does "call > do_doftirq;". Perhaps this function call from the assembly language > version does not get versionated? In my case its off a clean tree patched with lvm, ide patches, dma timeout retry patch and reiserfs fixes. Did we not have a problem a while back in ac with versioned symbols in assembly? Ed Tomlinson