On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:52:15PM -0500, W. Trevor King wrote: > Without this metadata, I got (while running 2.6.36) > # modprobe ni_pcimio > FATAL: Error inserting ni_pcimio (/.../ni_pcimio.ko): > Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) > # dmesg | tail -n30 > ... > [ 2970.180691] ni_pcimio: Unknown symbol ni_tio_handle_interrupt (err 0) > [ 2970.181170] ni_pcimio: Unknown symbol ni_tio_set_mite_channel (err 0) > [ 2970.183127] ni_pcimio: Unknown symbol ni_tio_init_counter (err 0) > [ 2970.183562] ni_pcimio: Unknown symbol ni_tio_winsn (err 0) > (similar missing symbols) > ... > Even though other Comedi modules were providing the symbols: > # grep ni_tio_handle_interrupt /proc/kallsyms > d82a45b1 t ni_tio_handle_interrupt [ni_tiocmd] Odds are you didn't run 'depmod' after installing the kernel then, right? > With the metadata macros, ni_pcimio loads successfully. I don't see how that would work a all. I'm not saying that this is an incorrect patch, but that it shouldn't solve a module dependancy problem. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
