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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:21:44 +0100 (CET)
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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To: "D'Angelo Salvatore" <dangelo.sasaman@tiscalinet.it>
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Subject: Re: dependencies problems on loop back device (linux 2.4.14)
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, D'Angelo Salvatore wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was trying to compile the kernel 2.4.14 and I had the following error
> message during the installation of the loopback device module
>
> find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{}
> pcmcia
> if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map  2.4.14; fi
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.14/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o
> depmod:     deactivate_page
>
> can someone help me?
>...

This is a known bug.

The following patch fixes the problem:

--- linux-2.4.14-broken/drivers/block/loop.c	Thu Oct 25 13:58:34 2001
+++ linux-2.4.14/drivers/block/loop.c	Mon Nov  5 17:06:08 2001
@@ -207,7 +207,6 @@
 		index++;
 		pos += size;
 		UnlockPage(page);
-		deactivate_page(page);
 		page_cache_release(page);
 	}
 	return 0;
@@ -218,7 +217,6 @@
 	kunmap(page);
 unlock:
 	UnlockPage(page);
-	deactivate_page(page);
 	page_cache_release(page);
 fail:
 	return -1;


cu
Adrian

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