2004-03-28 12:01:25

by Oliver Feiler

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Subject: CONFIG_ATALK cannot be compiled as a module (2.4.24)

Hi,

when selecting CONFIG_ATALK as a module the symbols register_snap_client and
unregister_snap_client will be unresolved. As I understand it they are in
net/802/psnap.c which does not get compiled when Appletalk is selected as a
module. Compiling into the kernel works fine.

I found this posting from 1996 which seems to mention the same problem:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/9603.1/0087.html

Does anyone know if the mentioned problems were ever fixed? Maybe CONFIg_ATALK
should not allow the module option if it's not supposed to work anyway.

Oliver


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2004-04-24 18:23:55

by Adrian Bunk

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Subject: Re: CONFIG_ATALK cannot be compiled as a module (2.4.24)

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 02:01:11PM +0200, Oliver Feiler wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Oliver,

> when selecting CONFIG_ATALK as a module the symbols register_snap_client and
> unregister_snap_client will be unresolved. As I understand it they are in
> net/802/psnap.c which does not get compiled when Appletalk is selected as a
> module. Compiling into the kernel works fine.
>...

thanks for this report and sorry for the late answer.

I wasn't able to reproduce your problem.

Please send your .config.

> Oliver

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Adrian

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2004-04-24 19:55:27

by Oliver Feiler

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Subject: Re: CONFIG_ATALK cannot be compiled as a module (2.4.24)

Hi Adrian,

On Saturday 24 April 2004 20:23, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> > when selecting CONFIG_ATALK as a module the symbols register_snap_client
> > and unregister_snap_client will be unresolved. As I understand it they
> > are in net/802/psnap.c which does not get compiled when Appletalk is
> > selected as a module. Compiling into the kernel works fine.
> >...
>
> thanks for this report and sorry for the late answer.
>
> I wasn't able to reproduce your problem.
>
> Please send your .config.

Attached. Upgraded the server to 2.4.26 in the meantime and threw out
appletalk again since we didn't need it in the end.

A quick test with compiling it as a module produced the same unresolved
symbols. Unless I missed another config option to set?

I don't need to set CONFIG_DEV_APPLETALK as well, right? Regardless, just
tried, same effect.

Btw, I think I didn't mention earlier, the kernel is patched with i2c-2.8.3.
Patch generated with mkpatch from the package and applied.

Thanks!

Oliver


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