Re: undefined reference

["Anthony Chee" <anthony.chee@polyu.edu.hk>]

> >
> >Then I use "make bzImage", I got no error message on compiling inode.c,
but
> >I got
> >
> >"fs/fs.o(.text+0x1377d): undefined reference to `func'"
>
> You cannot do that.  The kernel must be self contained.  The only way
> for the kernel to access module code and data is for the module to
> register that code and data when the module is loaded and for the
> kernel to access the module via the registration list.
>
> See any module that handles a filesystem.  sys_open() does not call the
> module directly.  A module registers its file operations on load.  The
> kernel (dentry_open) calls the module via f->f_op->open.
>
>

Thanks for your help. I use another apporach to communicate with module,
similiar to the method you stated above.

What I did in the kernel source,

1. In fs.h, I added one line in struct super_operations
            int (*query_module) (struct inode *);

2. In write_inode() of inode.c, added
            result = inode->i_sb->s_op->query_module(inode);

What I did in the module,

1. Build up my own function, kernel_query_module(struct inode *inode)

2. In init_module(), added
            struct super_block *sb_ptr;
            sb_ptr = get_super(MKDEV(8,1));          /* suppose I want to
get super_block of /dev/sda1 */
            sb_ptr -> s_op -> query_module = &kernel_query_module;

Then, I compile the module and didi not get error message
When I compile the kernel, I got the follow error message,

inode.c:195: structure has no member named `query_module'

It made me crazy. Why the module can access the s_op and register the
address of kernel_query_module, but not the kernel source? I already added
one more item in the struct super_operation, but got the error message the
struct has no such member.

Any thing I missed? Thanks.