Re: upgrading modutils may have fixed: unresolved symbols still in 2.4.30-rc2 (usbserial needs symbol tty_ldisc_ref and tty_ldisc_deref which are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL)

From: Keith Owens
Date: Mon Mar 28 2005 - 06:02:27 EST


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:20:01 +0200,
Willy Tarreau <willy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I believe it's because of genksyms during the build process, I had the
>exact same problem a few weeks ago on a machine with old modutils. So
>you should have cleaned everything and rebuilt from scratch after
>installing your new modutils. BTW, the required modutils in
>Documentation/Changes is still marked as 2.4.10, I hope it is still
>enough.

You need modutils >= 2.4.14 to use the combination of
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() on 2.4 kernels.

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