[18439] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.7: athena-afs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Oct 19 19:42:56 2000
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:42:53 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200010192342.TAA19402@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: Shamik Das <shamikd@mit.edu>
CC: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17980] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Whatever the cause of this problem, Athena 8.4.15 (due out next week)
should add the appropriate arguments to insmod when needed.
Jonathon Weiss
jweiss@mit.edu
MIT IS/Athena Programmer
> 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.
> --[17980]-- (pref = [17979])
>
