On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:55:23 + (GMT),
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hmm, don't we already have all that __setup() stuff laying around? Ok,
>it might not be built into the .o for modules, but it could be. Could
>we not do something along the lines of:
>
>1. User passes parameters
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:56:38 +0100,
Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> Inconsistent methods for setting the same parameter are bad. I can and
>> will do this cleanly in 2.5.
>
>If your approach isn't overly intrusive (i.e. doesn
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:18:40 +0100 (MET),
Michael Palme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ive got a problem with the EXPORT_SYMBOL() macro.
>d801e0dc symbol_exported_R__symbol_exported
FAQ alert! http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:54:56 +1100,
David Luyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here's a proposed v2.4 "quick fix" to allow specifying "module parameters" to
>any of the many drivers without option parsers when built in to the kernel.
Fundamental problem: you assume that each module is built from a
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:09:14 -0200 (BRST),
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Rainer Mager wrote:
>>>EIP; f889e044<=
>Trace; f889d966
>
>It seems the oops is happening in a module's function.
>
>You have to make ksymoops parse the oops output against a Syste
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:47:29 -0800 (PST),
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> That's the one flaw in the inter_module_get() stuff - we could do with a
>> way to put entries in the table at _compile_ time, rather than _only_ at
>> run time.
>
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:43:21 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>> That forces the maintenance load back onto the binary supplier and
>> removes the questions from l-k, including many of the oops reports with
>
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:12:13 -0500 (EST),
Werner Puschitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a safe way to add debug information like simple string prints in
>arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.s and in arch/i386/kernel/head.S
>so that I can see at the console where the boot process hangs?
Time fo
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:09:40 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lack of [module symbol] runtime typechecking isn't a showstopper.
It is when users try to insert modules from kernel A into kernel B when
the ABI changed between A and B. This is not type checking to catch
ker
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 07:33:47 -0400,
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
>-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
>-march=i586-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ksyms.c
>In file included fro
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:46:00 +0100,
Christian Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I see what you mean. What do you suggest should be done in the context of
>the driver? As you can easily tell, I'm not overly familiar with the
>internal workings of the kernel. That and the mere impossibility to get
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:46:44 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>Actually, my testing showed that modutils was quite OK with symbols which
>may or may not be present. But compiling such code into the kernel, at
>leas
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:11:30 +0100,
Christian Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Saying that I should have made use of this mechanism for the specific
>code in the Nvidia driver that we are talking about clearly shows that
>you didn't look at it. The module used get_module_symbol to search its
>o
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:01:12 +0100,
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> I want to completely remove this multi layered method for setting
>> initialisation order and go back to basics. I want the programmer to
>> say "initialise
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:27:34 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>> A typical graph would have scsi disk depends on scsi host adaptor group
>> which depends on pci.
>
>No. sd will happily take over any existi
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 03:12:47 +0100,
Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So why don't we use sth. like depmod for these issues and get the
>link order automagically (like we get module load order)?
depmod handles dependencies on symbols. Module Y needs a symbol from
module X so modprobe must
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:09:13 + (GMT),
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Stick to one method that works for all routines, dynamic registration.
>> If that imposes the occasional need for a couple of extra calls in some
>> routines and for people to think about initialisation order right f
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:32:10 +,
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm not suggesting that we change it drastically, only that we add
>the option of static (compile-time) registration for those entries which
>require it.
So you want two services, one static for code that does not
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:42:24 +,
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Taking away get_module_symbol() and providing a replacement which has link
>order problems wasn't really very sensible.
>
>It's too late to do the sensible thing and deprecate the old version rather
>than having a '
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:23:33 + (GMT),
Mark Hindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As I use the kernel module autoloader I also have a cron entry for rmmod -a
>which runs every so often to clear out the unused modules. Although
>the logs record rmmod running, they don't say what if any modules we
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:38:50 +1100,
Antony Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Allen Unueco wrote:
>> I ran into this while hacking the Nvidia kernel driver to work with
>> 2.4.0. I got the driver working but it's not 100%
>>
>> Also where did get_module_symbol() and put_module_symbol() go?
>
>Pa
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:17:41 + (GMT),
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>jeremyhu wrote
>> See below for my origional problem. It seems the problem lies in the
>> module versioning option.
>
>Not quite
Probably is.
>> When the system boots, I am spammed with the following line:
>> insmod
support
the msr and returns EIO instead of oopsing and taking the kernel with
it. I could never persuade Ingo to use wrmsr_eio() and check the
return code, maybe this will change his mind. Extract from kdb v1.7.
/*
* {rd,wr}msr_eio by HPA, moved from arch/i386/msr.c to here.
* Keith Owens.
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:03:06 -,
"M T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running redhat 6.2 halt scripts and strange problem appears when
>shutting system down with kernel-2.4.0. I get message that "/ device is
>busy".
Known problem with Redhat 6.2 scripts. Ask Redhat for the fix.
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On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 19:27:24 -0800,
Allen Unueco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Also where did get_module_symbol() and put_module_symbol() go?
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg08791.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg11497.html
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:27:44 +1100,
Eyal Lebedinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My 'make dep' fails in the following way. This is on Debian 2.2, I
>commented
>if [ -n "amigamouse.c atarimouse.c atixlmouse.c baycom.c busmouse.c
>cd1865.h conmakehash.c console.c console_struct.h consolemap.c
>conso
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:30:12 +0100,
f5ibh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok, I knew that, the problem is why unix.o is loaded so early ? I've not found
>where it is requested / loaded (I've kmod enabled).
Probably syslog().
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In the absence of any screams of pain from the usb list, modutils 2.4.1
is released for your enjoyment.
ftp://ftp..kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4
modutils-2.4.1.tar.gz Source tar
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:57:32 + (GMT),
Guennadi Liakhovetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote
>> kdb v0.6 is out of date and no longer supported. kdb v1.5 against
>> 2.2.18 is in ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ix86/, it supports
>> modules co
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:19:50 -0500,
"Rich Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This patch should fix the rest of the warnings about #endif
>statements when using the 20001225 gcc snapshot. Thanks to
>Keith Owens for providing a script to automate this process. It got
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:02:40 -0800,
A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm still seeing
>
>#include
>
>at line 25 of acpi_ksyms.c. This is also the same line, in
>patch-2.4.0-ac2 (counted the lines of each). Neither patches compile from this.
Not happening here. -ac2 and
e not required to
# have perl to install Linux. awk was a possibility but some versions
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# Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. GPL. Sun Jun 28 21:20:10 EST 1998
#
# Updated for 2.4.0 Kei
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 19:01:06 +0530 (IST),
Sourav Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For using kdb I have done the following:
kdb is not part of the standard linux kernel, linux-kernel is the wrong
mailing list.
> 2) patched the source using kdb-v0.6-2.2.13 as I am using
> linu
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 07:41:57 -0500,
Paul Gortmaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Rich Baum wrote:
>>
>> Here's a patch that fixes more of the compile warnings with gcc
>> 2.97.
>> -#endif __SNMP__
>> +#endif /* __SNMP__ */
>
>Might as well automate it for all of these endif ones through the entire
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:32:25 -0800,
A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi'
>gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
>-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
>-
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 09:58:47 + (GMT),
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Nicolas Noble writes:
>> Why do I have used by -1 for the module ipv6 onto my system?
>
>I guess this is going to be a new FAQ! Can we add it to the lkml FAQ
>please?
>From man insmod in modutils 2.4.1 (not releas
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001 10:51:53 -0600,
George R. Kasica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote
>>You have a broken modules.conf that tells depmod to scan _all_ of
>>/lib/modules or you have an old version of modules or you have some
>>weird symlinks in /lib/modul
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 12:43:24 +0100,
f5ibh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
>insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.19pre6/misc/unix.o: cannot create
>/var/log/ksymoops/20010106112242.ksyms Read-only file system
man insmod, look for /var/log/ksymoops. If you define t
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 20:51:46 + (GMT),
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> o binutils 2.9.1.0.25 # ld -v
>> o modutils 2.4.0 # insmod -V
>>
>> and 2.4 uses gas instead of as86 for real mode.
>>
>> Are not that versions enough to
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:52:45 +0100,
"-=da TRoXX=-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a very simple question:
>I used to compile-in my framebuffer-device in the kernel
>then i just appended "video=tdfxfb:1024x768-32@70" in lilo.conf and it
>worked..
>
>now i compiled it as a module, and want modpr
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:23:29 -0600,
George R. Kasica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'.
>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/lib'
>>cd /lib/modules/2.4.0; \
>>mkdir -p pcmcia; \
>>find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xar
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 21:54:29 -0800,
Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi'
>/usr/src/linux/Rules.make:224: *** Recursive variable `CFLAGS' references itself
>(eventually). Stop.
In drivers/acpi/Makefile, delete the line
$(MODINCL)/%.ve
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 02:42:11 -0200,
Fr d ric L . W . Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is this just me? Configuring 2.4.0 with make menuconfig with
>CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y I get no prompt for USB Mass Storage,
>but the .config is saved with # CONFIG_USB_STORAGE is not set
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE is o
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http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ix86/ contains patches for kdb
v1.7 against kernel 2.4.0.
No significant changes since 2.4.0-test13 and 2.4.0-prerelease. Just
fitting the patch to the new kernel.
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:59:12 +1100,
Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>modutils-2.4.0.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
I have just found out that there was an incompatible change to struct
usb_device_id during 2.4.0-prerelease :(((. That means that all
ve
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ksymoops-2.4.0.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
ksymoops-2.4.0-1.src.rpmAs above, in SRPM format
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modutils-2.4.0.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.4.0-1.src.rpmAs above, in SRPM format
modutils-2.4.0-1.i3
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:19:51 -0600,
Michael Elizabeth Chastain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I wonder if Gnu Make 3.78.1 has the same problem?
>I know of one bug in 3.78.1 where ...
It did.
GNU Make version 3.78.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for alpha-redhat-linux-gnu
Defin
At least one of the reported make errors on drivers/acpi is caused by a
bug in make 3.78 on alpha. 3.79 works on alpha for that user and 3.77
and 3.79 work on ix86 for me.
Anybody getting recursive CFLAG errors on drivers/acpi with make 3.78
should upgrade to 3.79 or downgrade to 3.77. The reco
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:51:59 +0100,
Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>and a lot of other places simply use "save_flags(flags); cli();
>restore_flags()". Can someone enlighten me how this is supposed to work
>on SMP machines ? AFAIK "cli()" only disables IRQs on the local
>CPU so a differe
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:27:59 +,
Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just seen this on UP kernel build.
>/usr/src/linux/Rules.make:224: *** Recursive variable `CFLAGS'
>references itself (eventually). Stop.
What does make --version report?
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:51:31 -0500,
Frank Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
> I received the following make dep error while compiling
>prerelease-ac5 .
>make -C acpi fastdep
>make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi'
>/usr/src/linux/Rules.make:224: *** Recursive variab
On 03 Jan 2001 21:53:50 +,
Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My 2.4.0-prerelease freezes solid on certain serial port events. The
>ones I have seen (and are both repeatable) are when powering off the
>modem and powering it on causes the system to hang solid. Also if an
>incoming call
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:40:05 +0100,
Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
>> &g
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 04:39:50 +0100,
"Udo A. Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith, I've read the FAQ about having been bitten by Makefile bugs
>with certain symbols and such, yet I still get these symbol warnings
>even after a mrproper rebuild. Any clues?
>Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_bas
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 04:15:16 +0100,
"J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have seen that the CCFOUND stuff has flown away. I have read it
>breaks somthing, and the CROSS_COMPILE in alphas and m68k.
>Perhaps this way could be better : ??
>..
>include arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile
>
>AS :=$(AS)
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:12:49 +0100,
Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
>its version when --version is used, should it?
Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing
behaviour; somewhere, somebod
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 04:39:39 -0500,
Paul Gortmaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> kernel/module.c defines
>> extern const char __start___kallsyms[] __attribute__ ((weak));
>> extern const char __stop___kallsyms[] __attribute__ ((weak));
>>
&
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:56:08 -0500,
Paul Gortmaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>--- linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds~ Fri Jul 7 03:47:07 2000
>+++ linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.ldsMon Jan 1 07:55:50 2001
>+ __start___kallsyms = .; /* All kernel symbols */
>+ __kallsyms : { *(__kallsyms)
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:39:38 -0800 (PST),
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote:
>>
>> It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious
>> Makefile tweak), but the drm modules have unresolved symbols:
>
>Does this fix it for you (do a "make
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 21:52:16 -0800,
"Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is a thread in linux-kernel about how somewhere in
>linux-2.4.0-test13-preX, the Makefile for drivers/char/drm started
>building libdrm.a and not versioning the symbols. I believe the
>following patch
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patch-modutils-2.3.24.gzPatch from modutils 2.3.23 to 2.3.24
modutils-2.3.24.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutil
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:38:16 -0800,
J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Looks good here in most respects, but still needs makefile fixes -
>
># modprobe tdfx
>/lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o: unresolved
>symbol remap_page_range
> etc, etc
>
>Of course, adding
>
>#
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:07:57 -0700,
Frank Jacobberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-145
>
>From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
>
>10 charNon-serial mice, misc features
>145 = /dev/hfmodem Soundcard shortwave modem control {2.6}
That i
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 01:55:51 +0100,
"Udo A. Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can someone explain to me what all those ksymoops warnings are
>about?
>Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol acpi_clear_event_R__ver_acpi_clear_event
>not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Read
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 22:19:37 +0100 (CET),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I wanted to share what I've done but since I'm very new to kernel hacking
>I don't know what to do with my patch. Could you give me some hints?
linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
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On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 21:11:14 +0100,
"J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Solving other things, I have realized that all that problem on fast
>CC detection (CCFOUND) is easily solved by doing:
> CC := $(.)
>instead of
> CC = $(.)
>The find of the suit
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 02:26:12 + (GMT),
Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've not noticed this on earlier kernel versions, is there something
>silly I'm missing that's making my DEC hinote VP (p100 laptop)s
>system clock slow by a factor of five or so after resume?
>Not the CPU or cmos
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:20:17 GMT,
Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just compiled 2.2.18 for my AlphaServer 400 4/233, and noticed a lot of
>messages like the following during the compile, they all contain the
>'Ignoring changed section attributes for .modinfo' part:
The way .modinfo i
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:31:12 +0100,
Christian Gennerat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>About Standard aliases:
>> modprobe -c
>...
>alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
>...
>
>Why bsd_comp is the standard alias?
You should also have
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
The
modutils 2.3.23 has a bug with empty MODULE_GENERIC_STRING entries,
depmod loops.
Index: 23.11/depmod/depmod.c
--- 23.11/depmod/depmod.c Sun, 17 Dec 2000 10:18:04 +1100 kaos
(modutils-2.3/b/43_depmod.c 1.39 644)
+++ 23.11(w)/depmod/depmod.c Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:13:18 +1100 kaos
+(modutils-2.3/b/
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:35:58 -0500 (EST),
M Sweger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Question: Is it possible to update the ksymoops utility to a
> newer version vs. the one supplied which is v0.6?
Read the warning message. ksymoops is separate from the kernel after 2.2.
WARNING: This v
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:39:50 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> The rest of the kernel already depends totally on these "subtle" issues
>> with link order. Why should mtd be different?
>
&
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 10:44:09 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The conditional compilation is far more obvious to people than subtle
>issues with link order. So I prefer to avoid the latter at all costs.
The rest of the kernel already depends totally on these "subtle" issu
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 10:01:07 + (GMT),
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> Somebody changed include/linux/mtd/map.h between 2.4.0-test11 and
>> test12. That change is wrong, it adds conditional complexity whe
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:22:04 +0100,
Norbert Breun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>having applied your patch below + modutils2.3.23-1 + kernel2.4.0-test13pre2
>all seems to run perfect.
>But when starting kwintv /dev/video is not found. /dev/video is a symling on
>/dev/video0 and with kernel kerne
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 18:31:28 -0500 (EST),
John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi. I have a RealTech 8139 Ethernet card and I am using kernel
>2.2.18. I tried to use the new driver 8139too as a module, but when
>doing an insmod or modprobe on the module I got "symbol forparameter
>debug not
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* Include latest Redhat alias list. Bill Nottingham.
* hppa and hppa64 support. Richard Hirst.
* Rework Makefiles for common 32/64 code. Keith Owens.
* Add parportmap. Adam J Richter, Keith Owens.
* Use GNU standards for cross compile
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 23:07:01 +0100,
Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Various files in drivers/mtd references cfi_probe (by way of do_cfi_probe).
>This function is static and thus not shared. The following patch removes
>the static declaration but if it is What Was Intended I do not kno
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 05:32:51 -0600,
Lee Leahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i'm not very familiar with klog, but i'll go with klogd.
>do i append a '-x' to the line that calls klogs in the startup scripts or
>is there some other better way of preventing klogd from destroying
>the Oops information.
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:24:01 -0500,
Jon Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This appears to be a problem with the Makefile changes and NFS/NFSD/lockd
>and module compilation.
Index: 0-test13-pre2.1/fs/lockd/svc.c
--- 0-test13-pre2.1/fs/lockd/svc.c Mon, 02 Oct 2000 15:28:44 +1100 kaos
(linux-2.4/e
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:32:44 +0100,
f5ibh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>/lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre2/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.o
>/lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre2/kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.o: unresolved symbol rpc_wake_up_task
Does this fix it?
Index: 0-test13-pre2.1/fs/lockd/svc.c
--- 0-test13-pre2.1/fs/lockd
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:37:29 +0100,
Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Trace; c01091d8
>
>> Trace; c0105000
>> Trace; c0100191
>
>Once again we have these two symbols on the stack.
Probably spurious. Remember that ix86 show stack prints anything that
looks like a kernel address, wheth
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:37:49 -0800 (PST),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Do you have an alternative reccomendation? I've shown where the symlink
>method WILL fail. You disagree that having the configured headers copied
>is a workable idea. What else is there?
Use the pcmcia-cs method. Ask where the
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:55:59 -0500,
Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Every time I try to copy a specific directory to a mounted loop file system,
>Linux freezes up on me. I've tried this several times and it freezes up at
>the same place every time. When I copy that same directory to
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:13:29 + (GMT),
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> previously because nobody used those options. Since these are bugs in
>> the modules and only a few modules are affected (less than 5 reported),
>> the fix is to correct the modules that have coding errors.
>
>That
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:10:54 + (GMT),
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It is modutils. Their behaviour changed in a non back compatible way. Do not
>use modutils 2.3.22 with Linux 2.2.* is the simple answer. Perhaps Keith can
>make this a warning in 2.3.23
Adding persistent module data t
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:39:31 -0500,
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've just patched and reconfigured to 2.2.18 (from 2.2.17 on an
>i686-linux-gnu[2.2]). make bzImage fails with:
>ld:/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds:73: parse error
> /* Stabs debugging sections. */
> .
> stab 0 : { *(
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ix86/ contains patches for kdb
v1.7 against 2.4.0-test11 and 2.4.0-test12.
There is a large amount of internal reorganisation from kdb v1.6 to
v1.7 to make it easier to support multiple architectures. Most of this
is feedback from the kdb for IA64 work in
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:13:46 -0500 (EST),
"Georg Nikodym" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here's a patch (against sysklogd-1.3-31) that completely tear out the
>symbol processing code.
Looks good, except that you need to keep the option flags for backwards
compatibility. There are a *lot* of script
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:42:14 -0200,
Fr d ric L . W . Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is this a 2.4.0 issue? Because I see the warnings on 2.2.18
>too, and also building alsa-driver. I use modutils 2.3.22.
>binutils 2.10.1.0.2. glibc 2.2.
The kernel is trying to fudge the section flags for .m
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:59:01 -0800,
"Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> linux-2.4.0test12pre8/include/linux/module.h contains some
>kernel-specific declarations that now reference struct list_head, which
>which is only defined when __KERNEL__ is set. This causes sysklogd
>and pr
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:05:42 +0800,
"Corisen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for your reply. The below mentioned warning messages where displayed
>while using modutils 2.3.22. Guess I need to apply the patch you mentioned
>to removed all the anonying messages.
>
>As I've not applied any patch
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:15:53 +0800,
"Corisen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i'm compiling kernel 2.4.0-test11 uder RH7. i've changed the CC= line to use
>kgcc, executed "make clean" and "make mrproper". "make menuconfig" and "make
>dep" went smoothly. however during the "make modules" process, seve
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:44:06 + (GMT),
Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dec 10 17:08:24 oxygen kernel: Call Trace: []
>[call_spurious_interrupt+33951/35940] [sprintf+20/28]
>[call_spurious_interrupt+33924/35940] [do_resource_list+77/132]
>[call_spurious_interrupt+33907/35940] []
Yet another
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:38:56 -0300,
Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>With 2.2.18pre27 on i686 I get:
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.18/ipv4/ip_masq_user.o
>warning: symbol for parameter ports not found
>ports int array (min = 1, max = 12)
>debug int
ports is not used in ip_masq_user, dead code.
modutils 2.3.22 does more rigorous checking of MODULE_PARM entries and
has already found several cases where MODULE_PARM(x) is used but the
corresponding variable 'x' is not defined. These are module coding
bugs that were previously hidden. Run this script to do a quick check
of all your modules
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 18:32:56 -0500,
Michael Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Cox wrote:
>> The patch I intend to be 2.2.18 is out as 2.2.18pre26 in the usual place.
>> I'll move it over tomorrow if nobody reports any horrors, missing files etc
>
>Fresh 2.2.17, "patch -p1 < /pre-patch-2.2
. Werner Almesberger.
* modprobe -C did not print probe/probeall. Wolfgang Oertl.
* options statement was confused by /dev/snd and snd. Wolfgang Oertl.
* Report failing module in a dependency list. Original patch by
Pavel Roskin, reworked by Keith Owens
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