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From: "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>
To: "Russell King" <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5 vs. modem cards
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:44:33 +0900
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"Russell King" <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> replied to me:

> > In file 8250_cs.c:
>
> Its going to get renamed back to serial_cs shortly.

OK.

> > Later in the same source file, calls to register_serial() and
> > unregister_serial() compile but fail during execution.  Of course in order
> > to make it execute in the first place I have to manually modprobe 8250_cs,
> > because of the reason mentioned above.  /var/log/messages gets reports that
> > those symbols are unknown.
>
> I have no idea how you managed that.  The configuration subsystem does
> not allow you to build 8250_cs.c as a module without building 8250.c in
> some manner, and 8250.c provides those symbols.

I built 8250.c as a module, but might have neglected to modprobe it.  Since
a manual modprobe of 8250_cs also neglected to automatically modprobe its
dependency 8250, there might be breakage in modprobe, or this might just be
additional breakage in the naming of 8250 vs. serial.

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