Re: [PATCH] Symbol troubles in 2.4.18pre... kernels

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2002 - 19:48:12 EST


> depmod: sis_malloc
>
> The trouble is that these modules are exported by drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c
> so depmod has valid complaints if the first was configured and the other
> not. So this is a source error or a configuration error depending if
> these two are supposed to be independent or not.

There isnt a good way to fix this in the config language - suggestions
welcome

> 'isa_eth_io_copy_and_sum' is defined only for some architectures but
> assorted modules, like drivers/net/3c503.o and few others, can be
> configured, say, for Alpha and 'depmod' once again complains about
> unresolved symbols. I do not think that anybody will really miss that
> on Alpha but maybe configuring them in should be disallowed?

This is a bug in the Alpha port. Fix the port. Its not ecactly the
most complex function to implement.

> Some sound modules are using 'mdelay', defined in linux/delay.h,
> but are not including this header. Here, at last, the patch is trivial. :-)

Yep - looks good to me
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