Re: unresolved symbol in 2.4.1 depmod.

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:42:20 +1100


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.

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