Messages in this thread |  | | From | Hristo Grigorov <> | Subject | Re: Kernel PPP driver broken in 2.4.10-pre14 | Date | Sat, 22 Sep 2001 17:54:36 -0400 |
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Hi!
Next time do not waste your time; check the mailing list beforehand...
That problem was found, fixed and now waiting on some very-very long queue to be merged.
H.
On Saturday 22 September 2001 11:47, Martin Heiss wrote: > Hi, > the linux kernel 2.4.10-pre14 ppp driver seems to be broken for me. > In kernels <= 2.4.9 it used to work fine! > > When i try to insmod the "ppp_async" module it complains about "unresolved > symbol tty_register_ldisc" and therefore refuses to load. > > After looking at the changes being introduced in 2.4.10-pre I was able to > fix the problem: > > The problem is caused by the fact, that in 2.4.10-pre* the line > EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_register_ldisc); > has been _removed_ from 'net/netsyms.c' > > after readding this line (i added the "EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_register_ldisc);" > right under the tty_register_ldisc declaration in "drivers/char/tty_io.c", > but "net/netsyms.c" should work too) and recompiling everything now works > fine for me. (ppp_async now loads correctly again) > > Therefore I recommend you to readd the > EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_register_ldisc); > line whereever you consider it the right place (e.g. drivers/char/tty_io.c > etc) > > cu > > Martin Heiss > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
-- Regards, Hristo.
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