Re: missing memset in divas and eicon in 2.2.20

From: Armin Schindler (mac@melware.de)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 04:19:15 EST


Did you use plain 2.2.20 ?
I cannot reproduce this problem here, can you please send me your
kernel config.

Thanx,
Armin

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> betty:/usr/local/src/linux-2.2.20% sudo depmod -ae -F System.map 2.2.20-SMP
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.20-SMP/misc/divas.o depmod: memset
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.20-SMP/misc/eicon.o depmod: memset
>
> Both compiled as modules, SMP kernel, i686 compile. No, I didn't make a
> patch - I was too busy fighting with sct's patch for ext3, which is also
> slightly toasted in the deendencies department when compiled as a
> module.
>
> I don't know why these are missing memset. Of course memset is in the
> kernel and nobody else misses it one bit! Yes, they do include at least
> some header that incorporates memset (from linux/strings.h? Or in
> asm-i386?), because I tried copying an inline memset.h definition into
> their header files, and it produced a typical compiler error ("error
> before '?' .." sic) from a memset macro clash. One of the component
> sources of divas.o and eicon.o must be missing an #include
> <asm/strings.h>.
>
> Your mission is to find and eliminate that missing include.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
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