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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 03:30:02 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: unresloved symbols in 2.4.1
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Eugene Danilchenko (eugene@kriljon.ru) said: 
> > cd /lib/modules/2.4.1; \
> > mkdir -p pcmcia; \
> > find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
> > if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map  2.4.1; fi
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/fs/binfmt_elf.o
> > depmod:         get_pte_slow
> > depmod:         __handle_bad_pmd                                                                              
> > 
> > System: RedHat 6.2 
> > on system installed:
> > modutils-2.4.2-1
> > 
> > What does it mean.
> 
> It means that compiling ELF binary support as a module doesn't work right.
> 
> > and what have i to do to avoid it?
> 
> Compile it in (CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y). If you're using Red Hat Linux 6.2,
> compiling it as a module is an incredibly bad idea anyway.

I wonder if we shouldn't disable CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=m, until we have a
good use case and some good testers.

	Jeff



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