Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

Greg KH
2006-11-28T22:31:15Z

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:35:43PM +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is not set then this happens:
>
> CC kernel/module.o
> kernel/module.c:852: error: `initstate' undeclared here (not in a function)
> kernel/module.c:852: error: initializer element is not constant
> kernel/module.c:852: error: (near initialization for `modinfo_attrs[2]')
> make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
> make: *** [kernel] Error 2
>
> Reference to 'initstate' should stay under #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
> as its definition I guess.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
>
> --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2-a/kernel/module.c 2006-11-28 12:17:09.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2-b/kernel/module.c 2006-11-28 12:05:01.000000000 +0100
> @@ -849,8 +849,8 @@ static inline void module_unload_init(st
> static struct module_attribute *modinfo_attrs[] = {
> &modinfo_version,
> &modinfo_srcversion,
> - &initstate,
> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
> + &initstate,
> &refcnt,
> #endif

Kay, is this correct? I think we still need this information exported
to userspace, even if we can't unload modules, right?

thanks,

greg k-h