Re: unknown symbols loading modules under 2.6.x

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:18:00AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:07:45 -0400 Kirk Reiser <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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).

Also make sure that you use kbuild when compiling your module.
See Documentation/modules.txt (or Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
in BK-latest).

	Sam
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