Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:22:22 -0600 | Subject | Re: 2.2.18pre24 and drm/agpgart static? | From | Peter Samuelson <> |
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[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).
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 In any case it has been replaced by a much better inter-module registration system in 2.4.
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