On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:54:39PM -0800, Junhan Zhang (junhan) wrote:
> I have a kernel module which uses sys_open(), however, when I insmod,
> I got unknown symbol sys_open(). Do you know why? By the way, I use
> kernel 2.6.11 . Thanks a lot.
The module should not need that symbol. It's a wrong way to open files
from kernel (not mentioning that it's wrong to open files in kernel at
all), because it uses file handles, that are associated with processes,
a luxury that kernel modules don't have. What kind of module it is?
> bash-2.05b# insmod flash.ko
> aesop_flash: Unknown symbol sys_open
> Dec 4 07:08:56 localhost kernel: aesop_flash: Unknown symbol sys_open
> insmod: error inserting 'flash.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
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