Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964894AbWIGAWv (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 20:22:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965285AbWIGAWv (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 20:22:51 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:19179 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964894AbWIGAWu (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 20:22:50 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1 module build symbol issues -- mkinitrd From: keith mannthey Reply-To: kmannth@us.ibm.com To: lkml Cc: andrew In-Reply-To: <1157576720.5713.37.camel@keithlap> References: <1157576720.5713.37.camel@keithlap> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Linux Technology Center IBM Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:22:46 -0700 Message-Id: <1157588567.5713.42.camel@keithlap> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1989 Lines: 45 On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 14:05 -0700, keith mannthey wrote: > Hello, > Some things have changed between rc5-mm1 and rc4-mm3. During my build > process I pickup the following errors when making the initrd. I don't > see any errors during modules_install. > > > WARNING: /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.N19592/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.18-rc5-mm1- > smp/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko needs unknown symbol > register_latency_notifier > WARNING: /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.N19592/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.18-rc5-mm1- > smp/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko needs unknown symbol > system_latency_constraint > WARNING: /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.N19592/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.18-rc5-mm1- > smp/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko needs unknown symbol > unregister_latency_notifier > WARNING: /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.N19592/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.18-rc5-mm1- > smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko needs unknown symbol blk_free_tags > > > My config build all of SCSI as modules and loads them into an initrd. > As I build things into the kernel the errors go away but if I build say > scsi support into the kernel all the symbols from host.c start not > linking (lots and lots of unknown symbols) > > Maybe these are just warning from my mkinird scrips (SLES based) but I > wasn't seeing these until rc5-mm1. The symbols in question seem to be > exported correctly so I am not sure what the deal is. > > Has some linker / module script been changed or is my mkinitrd script > off in la-la land? Well I see this issue with rc5 and rc6 as well so it is some mainline change. I booted an rc6 kernel with the error messages and it worked booted so it mush be a safe to ignore warning at this point. It just seems weird that the behavior changed between rc4 and tc5. Thanks, Keith - 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/