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Re: arla 0.12 has missing modversions.h
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
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To: "A.J.Martin" <A.J.Martin@qmw.ac.uk>
Cc: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>, arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se
Subject: Re: arla 0.12 has missing modversions.h
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From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
Date: 30 Sep 1998 15:45:52 +0200
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> this may be trivial, but recent versions of xfs/linux/xfs_locl.h
> have not included the header file <linux/modversions.h>. On RedHat
> 5.1, at least, the resulting xfs.o module won't load if this is
> missing (many unresolved kernel syms).
Correct behaviour of modversion handling has always been a problem. It
works perfectly on RedHat 5.1 if you run a 2.1 kernel (sparc) compiled
with version support.
It also works on a Slackware system (with libc5 and 2.0 kernel).
If you have a solution that is guaranteed to work on _all_
configurations, you are welcome to send us a patch.
linux/module.h does not include linux/modversions.h is MODVERSIONS is
set. I suspect that there is a reason for this.
/Magnus
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