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SubjectRe: unresolved symbol in 2.4.1 depmod.
In article <4924.980894540@ocs3.ocs-net> you write:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:15:20 -0600 (CST),
> Jason Michaelson <micha044@tc.umn.edu> wrote:
> >Greetings. I've just procured myself a copy of 2.4.1, and tried to build
> >it. At the tail end of a make modules_install, the following error occurs:
> >
> >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/md/md.o
> >depmod: name_to_kdev_t
>
> name_to_kdev_t is defined in init/main.c. It is not exported so it
> cannot be called from modules. name_to_kdev_t *cannot* be exported
> because it is defined as __init, the code has gone by the time the
> module is loaded. Ask the md maintainer for a fix.

How did this used to work, then? The call to name_to_kdev_t has been
in the md code since (according to the code comments) May, 2000; the
module worked fine as of 2.4.1-pre10, which is the last version I used.

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Dave Meyer
dmeyer@dmeyer.net
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