From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261429AbTJMFFj (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:05:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261434AbTJMFFj (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:05:39 -0400 Received: from smtp1.att.ne.jp ([165.76.15.137]:21753 "EHLO smtp1.att.ne.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261429AbTJMFFg (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:05:36 -0400 Message-ID: <316f01c39147$8f4a1b90$5cee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> From: "Norman Diamond" To: Subject: 2.6.0-test7 with recent modutils vs. module symbols Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:03:59 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On a Red Hat 7.3 system with old modutils, I installed modutils-2.4.21-18 from an RPM. The new modutils work fine under kernels 2.6.0-test1 through test7 as well as kernel 2.4.18. On a SuSE 8.1 system with old modutils, I had trouble installing the new modutils from an RPM, and then had trouble building it by hand. The result could do modprobe and rmmod and lsmod, but a boot time error said that module symbols were unavailable because modules weren't enabled. Booting kernel 2.4.19 yielded no such error. On a SuSE 8.2 system with modutils-2.4.22-33, fortunately something stopped me just in time from downgrading to modutils-2.4.21-18. The distro's modutils-2.4.22-33 can do modprobe and rmmod and lsmod, but the same boot time error says that module symbols are unavailable because modules aren't enabled. Booting kernel 2.4.20 yields no such error. What is it about the combination of 2.6.0-test[1-7] and SuSE that has this error, while other combinations do not? Here is part of /var/log/messages: Oct 12 21:09:23 diamondpana kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.0-test7 Oct 12 21:09:25 diamondpana kernel: Loaded 25702 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.0-test7. Oct 12 21:09:25 diamondpana kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.0. Oct 12 21:09:25 diamondpana kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.