From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751316AbWGRL4v (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:56:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751323AbWGRL4v (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:56:51 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.179]:49822 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751316AbWGRL4t (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:56:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=C09w0PDHPBnHRCLrC8kYF+8zrbH/Jh775KlTz1lh5QwFsQBeoUMPyWnx7Qns1aCB1Erow4nUV2LX8x5kDsb8evP2ToAhFwSRWbkbbxXqXXl1oCVpJN0nQS24gD1PwuCIh/Y0s+vmkH4Lf6cHdjW3ufETQXY1i4sR+Rq/ht+7EQI= Message-ID: <44BCCC7B.7030408@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:56:43 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Reuther CC: LKML Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc2: depmod warning for backlight.ko References: <200607172358.07713.mreuther@umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <200607172358.07713.mreuther@umich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matt Reuther wrote: > Hi, Antonino. > > I am still getting warnings on depmod with the 2.6.18-rc2 kernel: > > INSTALL sound/usb/snd-usb-audio.ko > INSTALL sound/usb/snd-usb-lib.ko > INSTALL sound/usb/usx2y/snd-usb-usx2y.ko > if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map > 2.6.18-rc2; fi > WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-rc2/kernel/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.ko > needs unknown symbol fb_unregister_client > WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.18-rc2/kernel/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.ko > needs unknown symbol fb_register_client > > You posted a patch here a few days ago for 2.6.18-rc1-mm1 which fixes this > issue. Basically, the USB Apple Cinema display driver selects backlight > support, but backlight needs some things from framebuffer, which is turned > off. Kconfig does not recursively select CONFIG_FB, so backlight ends up with > unresolved symbols. > The patch is still in the -mm tree. They're all in Ottawa right now, so this will have to wait. Tony