It appears that this problem was due to my mistakely compiling the modules for a SMP kernel with a uniprocessor kernel config. Have fixed that, and things load OK now. Steve Timm On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Steven, > >> Problems happen in i686 and athlon architectures. Opteron (x86_64)is >> ok. Compiles are clean on all. >> When I do modprobe i2c-proc, the following happens: >> >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o: >> unresolved symbol create_proc_entry_R0be93f3a >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o: >> unresolved symbol kmalloc_R93d4cfe6 >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o: >> unresolved symbol __generic_copy_to_user_Rd523fdd3 >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o: >> unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry_Re94539f7 >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o: >> unresolved symbol proc_bus_Rd6eafc0f >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o: >> unresolved symbol sprintf_R1d26aa98 >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o: >> unresolved symbol kfree_R037a0cba >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o: >> unresolved symbol printk_R1b7d4074 >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o: insmod >> >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o failed >> /lib/modules/2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.o: insmod >> >> i2c-procfailed >> >> >> Any idea what might be wrong? Some wrong header getting into the >> compile somewhere? Other? As I say, x86_64 version is OK. > > Make sure you have File Systems > /proc file system support enabled > (CONFIG_PROC_FS). In theory i2c-proc should depend on it (in Config.in), > but now it looks like it doesn't... > > Another possibility is a problem with symbol versioning, which you seem > to have enabled. It should work, but maybe you could try without > versioning, just in case. > > Hope that helps, > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 timm at fnal.gov http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Div/Core Support Services Dept./Scientific Computing Section Assistant Group Leader, Farms and Clustered Systems Group Lead of Computing Farms Team
