Re: 2.4.20-pre10-aa1: unresolved symbol in xfs.o

[Christian Guggenberger <christian.guggenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 Oct 2002 18:19:08 Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:25:58PM +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> > Hi Andrea,
> >
> > I'm trying to compile 2.4.20-pre10aa1 with xfs enabled as module.
> > make modules_install ends up in:
> >
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.4.20-pre10aa1/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.o
> > depmod:    do_generic_file_write
> >
> > what to do?
>
> I logged it so it will be fixed. You can link it into the kernel in the
> meantime (select Y instead of M). For some reason bleeding edge gcc from
> CVS generates a flood of symbol errors when I run depmod before
> rebooting, so I don't easily notice these missing exports anymore (I
> should run depmod post reboot to notice them). thanks,

nope, static linking ends up in an error, too.

fs/fs.o: In function `xfs_write':
fs/fs.o(.text+0xa1158): undefined reference to `do_generic_file_write'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Christian