From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:34:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:34:43 -0500 Received: from sgi.SGI.COM ([192.48.153.1]:43561 "EHLO sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:34:35 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 From: Keith Owens To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: unresolved symbol in 2.4.1 depmod. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:27:40 CDT." <20010130182740.A10610@jhereg.dmeyer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:34:16 +1100 Message-ID: <30322.980908456@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:27:40 -0500, dmeyer@dmeyer.net wrote: >In article <4924.980894540@ocs3.ocs-net> you write: >> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:15:20 -0600 (CST), >> Jason Michaelson wrote: >> >Greetings. I've just procured myself a copy of 2.4.1, and tried to build >> >it. At the tail end of a make modules_install, the following error occurs: >> > >> >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/md/md.o >> >depmod: name_to_kdev_t >> >> name_to_kdev_t is defined in init/main.c. It is not exported so it >> cannot be called from modules. name_to_kdev_t *cannot* be exported >> because it is defined as __init, the code has gone by the time the >> module is loaded. Ask the md maintainer for a fix. > >How did this used to work, then? The call to name_to_kdev_t has been >in the md code since (according to the code comments) May, 2000; the >module worked fine as of 2.4.1-pre10, which is the last version I used. It might have worked as built in code, I would be astounded if it ever worked as a module on a standard kernel after that code was added. name_to_kdev_t has been defined as this since at least 2.4.0-test1. kdev_t __init name_to_kdev_t(char *line) You cannot export a symbol marked __init and expect it to work. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/