Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:18:00 -0700
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unknown symbols loading modules under 2.6.x
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:07:45 -0400 Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca> wrote:

| Hello Everyone:  I have been trying to hunt down the answer to
| aproblem I am having attempting to load my modules under the 2.6.x
| kernels.  They load just fine under the 2.4.x kernels.  Have there
| been changes which need to be made to get symbols found with modprobe
| other than the EXPORT_SYMBOL() macro?  The symbols show up in the
| modules.symbols file created by depmod.  They appear to reference the
| correct loadable module.  The loadable module these symbols are
| exported in however is comprised of two separate .o files during
| compile.  I am not sure whether that has anything to do with it or
| not.
| 
| If someone could give me an idea what to read to solve this I'd
| appreciate it.

Make sure that you have the current version of module-init-tools
installed from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/
and that scripts are using them (ie, check PATH).

If it's still not working, please post more complete info about the
problem.

--
~Randy
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