On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>
> 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.
Ok. I was just maintaining that code, I didn't write it, and it was
accepted into 2.2 with no mention of these problems. And btw it at
least seemed to be working...
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