Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 1 Dec 2000 20:18:46 -0800 | From | Jamie Manley <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18pre24 and drm/agpgart static? |
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:22:22PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Jamie Manley] > > Yes, modversions was enabled. Should that be affecting the build of > > the kernel proper? > > The bug you ran into is that MODVERSIONS messes up the > 'get_module_symbol' function, which is a sort of "optional dependency" > mechanism used by a few modules such as DRI (in this case: DRI needs to > be able to use the facilities of agpgart, but should also work > *without* agpgart present, since many systems have PCI video cards).
Of course, PCI and DRI shouldn't be mutually exclusive. Glad to hear it's being worked on.
> > MODVERSIONS is ugly and gross for any number of reasons, but the > get_module_symbol problem is quite localized -- AGP/DRI, MTD and maybe > one or two other subsystems. In any case it has been replaced by a > much better inter-module registration system in 2.4. > > Peter
I guess that means I should start testing 2.4.0test* on this machine :) Thanks for the background.
Jamie
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