Re: 2.6.15-rc2-mm1 problems

[Marc Koschewski]

* Chris Boot <bootc@xxxxxxxxx> [2005-11-24 10:50:43 +0000]:

> Marc Koschewski wrote:
> >* Chris Boot <bootc@xxxxxxxxx> [2005-11-23 23:45:49 +0000]:
> >
> >
> >>On another note, I can't get the binary nVidia drivers to work, they  
> >>complain about the following unresolved symbols:
> >>
> >>[4294682.396000] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> >>[4294682.396000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_enable_device
> >>[4294682.396000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_dev_put
> >>[4294682.396000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_get_device
> >>[4294682.396000] nvidia: Unknown symbol __pci_register_driver
> >>[4294682.396000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_bus_write_config_byte
> >>[4294682.396000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_unregister_driver
> >>[4294682.396000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_bus_read_config_dword
> >>[4294682.396000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_bus_read_config_word
> >>[4294682.396000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_bus_write_config_dword
> >>[4294682.397000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_set_master
> >>[4294682.397000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_bus_write_config_word
> >>[4294682.397000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_get_class
> >>[4294682.397000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_disable_device
> >>[4294682.397000] nvidia: Unknown symbol pci_bus_read_config_byte
> >>
> >
> >
> >http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Thanks for that link, although I'm not sure exactly what you're pointing 
> me at. I discovered last night (too late for me to post to LKML) that it 
> was caused by a funny patch by Greg KH to mark most of the PCI symbols 
> as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. Once backed out it works fine. Go figure.
> 

The nvidia module's problem should probably dicussed somewhere else as well
as should any out-of-kernel-tree module's probs. You won't get much
attention here ...

Marc
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