From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261939AbVGES3E (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:29:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261936AbVGES3E (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:29:04 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.195]:5954 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261953AbVGESXl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:23:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=fyScPvY7AGdGG+2sQ2ADhEmmuQ7Qr9Qcj5/T6A+1MmSvroUhnQz80fXd25GPJ4tx5gtqD4stdh/CBV+vAfTwrOI+qJkwv1UxJfM9HFxgH1LY/WVVdzZs4X1A5F3MI/P3ISC1QTyaMJZxNBBI+eBO+Uk45WMRxSamNOP7aiWJwq0= Message-ID: <4ae3c140507051123758bb61e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:23:39 -0400 From: Xin Zhao Reply-To: Xin Zhao To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Why cannot I do "insmod nfsd.ko" directly? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I tried to do "insmod nfsd.ko", but always got the error message "insmod: error inserting 'nfsd.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module" Why? The kernel is 2.6.11.10 The command I used is: 1. insmod lockd.ko ---succeed 2. exportfs -r ---succeed 3. insmod nfsd.ko --- failed Moreover, I noticed that if I do the following commands, nfsd.ko can be inserted: 1. rpc.mountd 2. exportfs -r 3. rpc.nfsd 1 Can someone explain what trick rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd do to make nfsd.ko insertable? Thanks in advance for your kind help! -x