2002-10-16 09:24:14

by Rusty Russell

Subject: [PATCH] Trivial ext2-as-a-module fix vs 2.5.43

Needs these two symbols exported, as I think, does ext3.

diff -urpN --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/current-dontdiff --minimal .31492-2.5.43-module.pre/mm/filemap.c .31492-2.5.43-module/mm/filemap.c
--- .31492-2.5.43-module.pre/mm/filemap.c 2002-10-16 15:01:26.000000000 +1000
+++ .31492-2.5.43-module/mm/filemap.c 2002-10-16 19:07:56.000000000 +1000
@@ -891,6 +891,7 @@ generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb
BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
return __generic_file_aio_read(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_read);

ssize_t
generic_file_read(struct file *filp, char *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
@@ -1650,6 +1651,7 @@ ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct ki
{
return generic_file_write(iocb->ki_filp, buf, count, &iocb->ki_pos);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write);

ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *file, const char *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)

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2002-10-17 05:04:13

by SL Baur

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trivial ext2-as-a-module fix vs 2.5.43

Rusty Russell ([email protected]) writes:

> Needs these two symbols exported, as I think, does ext3.

They're needed for NFS as a module too. Please apply the patch.

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /var/tmp/kernel-2.5.43-root/lib/modules/2.5.43-1sb/kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.o
depmod: generic_file_aio_read
depmod: generic_file_aio_write