From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263861AbTICRZ4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:25:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263860AbTICRZ4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:25:56 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:60032 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263861AbTICRZg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:25:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:28:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Alberto Manuel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Brand=E3o_Sim=F5es?= cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problems compiling kernel 2.4.22 In-Reply-To: <1062609049.860.4.camel@eremita.di.uminho.pt> Message-ID: References: <1062606509.623.20.camel@eremita.di.uminho.pt> <1062607884.623.23.camel@eremita.di.uminho.pt> <1062609049.860.4.camel@eremita.di.uminho.pt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Alberto Manuel [ISO-8859-1] Brandão Simões wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 17:58, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Alberto Manuel [ISO-8859-1] Brandão Simões wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 17:28, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote: > > > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > > > modules symbols broken references > > > > > > > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > > > > when I make 'make modules_install' I get: > > > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/ipip.o > > > > depmod: ip_send_check > > > > depmod: register_netdevice > > > > .. > > > > > > > > and so on, and not only for these modules: vfat, smbfs, msdos, etc > > > > > > > > By the way, when I tried to ssh to paste more information, I got in the > > > > console: > > > > [SNIPPED...] > > > > BYW. Did you try booting the new system, THEN, executing `depmod -a` ? > ok. In this case, it does not give any broken reference. > But, then, why does make modules_install run depmod if we know (almost > certain) that it will give broken references? > `make modules_install` executes depmod to create some entries in the new /lib/modules/$(VERSION)/modules.dep. It probably should have it's error output redirected to /dev/null because the kernel you are going to use the modules with, may not require the exported symbols found missing. > But, I need some more help. I can't load any ACPI modules, getting a No > such device as answer. I don't have also a /proc/acpi directory. > This is a different problem and has nothing to do with: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/ipip.o You need to review your configuration and see what else needs to be turned ON to get ACPI to work. `grep ACPI .config`... Bet it's "CONFIG_ACPI is not set" > Thanks for any help. > Alberto > > Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (794.73 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.