[OpenAFS] Re: swsusp2 and openafs

[Heiko Schulz]

> 
> On Thursday, September 08, 2005 05:09:14 -0400 Derrick J Brashear 
> <shadow@dementia.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Heiko Schulz wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have problems to load the openafs kernel module using a swsusp2
> >> patched kernel. I found this problem in a openafs list, but I did
> >> not found a solution. Is this still unsolved? I am using kernel
> >> 2.6.12, the kernel patch software-suspend-2.1.9.5-for-2.6.12 and
> >> openafs 1.3.87 from debian sid.
> >
> > I don't suppose you might tell us what problem you actually had?
> 
> I'll hazard a wild guess, and predict that the problem is an unresolved 
> symbol while loading the module, because we need to call refrigerator() but 
> software-suspend-2.1.9.5 marks that symbol GPL-only.  I reported this 
> problem some time ago, and the swsusp2 people fixed the problem in the 
> source, but I do not believe 2.1.9.5 is new enough to have that fix.
> 
> If this is indeed the problem, you will need to modify the swsusp patch (or 
> the patched kernel) to change EXPORT_GPL(refrigerator) back to 
> EXPORT(refrigerator).
> 

Thanks, I will try this...

Heiko Schulz


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