From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754498AbXEFCmA (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 22:42:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754689AbXEFCmA (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 22:42:00 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:64214 "EHLO pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754498AbXEFCl7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 22:41:59 -0400 Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 20:41:52 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: "modularized" 2.4.34.4 -> ide-core "unresolved symbols" In-reply-to: To: Zbigniew Baniewski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <463D4070.4080802@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/