Re: "modularized" 2.4.34.4 -> ide-core "unresolved symbols"

Robert Hancock
2007-05-06T02:42:00Z

Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I was trying to make "modularized kernel" (s.c. "Debian way") recently, yes,
> I made even kernel.deb package - but at the installation, I'm still getting
> an error: "ide-core: unresolved symbols".
>
> Making a quick search with Google I could see, it did occur to many other
> people even long ago. There was even a patch introduced - which, I believe,
> is in the 2.4.34.4 "drivers/ide" sub-dir - unfortunately it seems, that the
> patch is working no more.
>
> Perhaps there is another patch available for 2.4.34.4 ?

I don't think drivers/ide ever really played well when built modular, at
least not in 2.4, quite possibly in 2.6 as well. Things like DMA not
getting turned on automatically when the low-level driver was a module,
etc. Likely why Red Hat/Fedora never built it modular when they did
everything else..

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