Re: 2.4.8-pre4 drivers/net/wan/comx.c unresolved symbol

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 6 Aug 2001 03:10:48 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Gergely Madarasz wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>
> > This is probably already known but 2.4.8-pre4 drivers/net/wan/comx.c
> > has an unresolved symbol proc_get_inode when compiled as a module.
> >
> > I was pleasently suprised when doing a full kernel compile as modules.
> > 840 modules created, only one unresolved symbol.
>
> It is using a symbol which was exported in 2.2, but is not exported in
> 2.4. Either the driver needs a major rewrite to work as a module (it works
> compiled into the kernel) or proc_get_inode needs to be exported again.

The driver needs a major rewrite to work.

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