[OpenAFS-devel] MODVERSIONS patch

[Derek Atkins]

Why is openafs.o located in /lib/modules?

-derek

Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> --=-=-=
> 
> I run a kernel with versioned symbols, and after a while, I got tired
> of errors like the following:
> 
> "depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0/fs/openafs.o",
> 
> so I created the following patch.  I am not much of a kernel hacker at
> this point, so there might be a better way to do this, but it seems to
> have worked for me.  Something similar should probably be done for
> param.i386_linux22.
> 
> 
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> Content-Type: text/x-patch
> Content-Disposition: inline
> 
> --- /usr/local/src/openafs-1.0.2.2001.01.21/src/config/param.i386_linux24.h    Mon Nov  6 13:55:50 2000
> +++ param.i386_linux24.h        Tue Jan 23 13:57:49 2001
> @@ -52,6 +52,11 @@
>  #define AFS_GLOBAL_SUNLOCK
>  #endif
>  
> +#if defined(MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS)
> +#define MODVERSIONS
> +#include <linux/modversions.h>
> +#endif
> +
>  #endif /* __KERNEL__  && !DUMP_KERNEL*/
>  
>  #ifdef KERNEL
> 
> --=-=-=
> 
> -- 
> Michael Duggan
> (md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
> 
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