Re: unknown symbols loading modules under 2.6.x

Randy.Dunlap
2003-09-22T16:25:30Z

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:07:45 -0400 Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca> wrote:

| Hello Everyone: I have been trying to hunt down the answer to
| aproblem I am having attempting to load my modules under the 2.6.x
| kernels. They load just fine under the 2.4.x kernels. Have there
| been changes which need to be made to get symbols found with modprobe
| other than the EXPORT_SYMBOL() macro? The symbols show up in the
| modules.symbols file created by depmod. They appear to reference the
| correct loadable module. The loadable module these symbols are
| exported in however is comprised of two separate .o files during
| compile. I am not sure whether that has anything to do with it or
| not.
|
| If someone could give me an idea what to read to solve this I'd
| appreciate it.

Make sure that you have the current version of module-init-tools
installed from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/
and that scripts are using them (ie, check PATH).

If it's still not working, please post more complete info about the
problem.

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~Randy