Re: 2.4.20-pre10-aa1: unresolved symbol in xfs.o

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:41:48PM +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2002 18:19:08 Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:25:58PM +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> >> Hi Andrea,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to compile 2.4.20-pre10aa1 with xfs enabled as module.
> >> make modules_install ends up in:
> >>
> >> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> >> /lib/modules/2.4.20-pre10aa1/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.o
> >> depmod: 	do_generic_file_write
> >>
> >> what to do?
> >
> >I logged it so it will be fixed. You can link it into the kernel in the
> >meantime (select Y instead of M). For some reason bleeding edge gcc from
> >CVS generates a flood of symbol errors when I run depmod before
> >rebooting, so I don't easily notice these missing exports anymore (I
> >should run depmod post reboot to notice them). thanks,
> 
> nope, static linking ends up in an error, too.
> 
> fs/fs.o: In function `xfs_write':
> fs/fs.o(.text+0xa1158): undefined reference to `do_generic_file_write'
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

do_generic_file_write is missing, one patch is probably missing, I will
fix it in a few days, the last usable xfs was probably in 2.4.20pre5aa1.

Andrea