> Hi
>
> Iam trying to implement a new system call ("test") in linux kernel. when
> iam done with make dep and do make bzImage, i get the following error:
>
>
> In arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o: In function 'sys_call_table':
> arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(data+0x3d4): undefined reference to 'sys_test'
>
> I am using kernel 2.4.2. and the last few lines of my my
> /arch/i386/kernel/entry.S looks like this:
>
> .rept NR_syscalls-(.-sys_call_table)/4
> .long SYMBOL_NAME (sys_ni_syscall)
> .endr
>
> and there are 226 system call entries in /arch/i386/kernel/entry.S and in
> /include/asm/unistd.h . This number includes even my system call entry.
>
>
> can someone help me in resolving this error??
Undefined reference means, that you use - and in syscall table you USE symbols -
a symbol, that is not defined. Did you really define globally available
function sys_test and did it really get compiled?
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