[17980] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.7: athena-afs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shamik Das)
Wed Jul 12 15:30:38 2000
Message-Id: <200007121930.PAA01415@therac-25.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:53:25 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:30:34 -0400
From: Shamik Das <shamikd@MIT.EDU>
My offhand guess is that -P smp is needed since the module was built
against the stock kernel rather than the RedHat kernel that the machine
is running. If there were more disturbing symptoms, I'd build a stock
kernel to try this out; as it is, I'm fine with fixing the script by
hand. :)
I don't think my system is having issues... the software is vanilla
linux-Athena and the hardware is tried-and-true dual PPro.
Thanks,
Shamik
> > in the afs startup script, insmod needs -P smp in order to load the
> > mp module.
>
> My insmod man page says:
>
> -P prefix
> This option can be used with versioned modules for a SMP kernel,
> since such modules have an extra prefix added in their symbol
> names. Normally insmod detects this special case automatically,
> so this option is available for very special circumstances.
>
> Perhaps something is wrong with your system such that insmod isn't
> detecting that case automatically? I don't fully understand Linux's
> module loading, so I'm not sure what could be wrong.
