Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:34:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:34:36 -0500 Received: from mail.cs.umn.edu ([128.101.34.202]:47358 "EHLO mail.cs.umn.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:34:36 -0500 To: rct@gherkin.frus.com (Bob_Tracy(0000)) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.55+: soundcore: Unknown symbol errno From: Raja R Harinath Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:43:22 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20030111151812.3F4DC4EE7@gherkin.frus.com> (rct@gherkin.frus.com's message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:18:12 -0600 (CST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) References: <20030111151812.3F4DC4EE7@gherkin.frus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 978 Lines: 25 Hi, rct@gherkin.frus.com (Bob_Tracy(0000)) writes: > I'm getting the subject error message with ALSA for both 2.5.55 and > 2.5.56. The culprit appears to be the very last patch in the 2.5.55 > patch set, which deletes "static int errno;" from > linux/sound/sound_firmware.c. The undefined reference to errno is > from the include of . Try compiling soundcore in-kernel (everything else can be modular). The "problem" appears to be that 'errno' in lib/errno.c is not EXPORT_SYMBOLed. The "static int errno;" in sound_firmware.c was most definitely a bug, especially since it conflicts with the "extern int errno;" in linux/unistd.h. - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/