Re: do_softirq

[Walt H <waltabbyh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a different patch than the one I was aware of from the kml. Is
this preferred over the non-version symbol export? (Hope I didn't 
misunderstand that..) That one seemed to work well.

-Walt


Keith Owens wrote:

>On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:47:05 +0200,
>"Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Having compiled 2.4.6-pre3-xfs, I get an unresolved symbol in
>>ppp_generic.o:
>>
>># /sbin/depmod -a -e
>>depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
>>/lib/modules/2.4.6-pre3-xfs/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o
>>depmod: 	do_softirq
>>
>
>Kernel bug, not XFS.  Patch has been sent to Linus.
>
>Index: 6-pre3.1/include/asm-i386/softirq.h
>--- 6-pre3.1/include/asm-i386/softirq.h Sat, 09 Jun 2001 11:25:53 
+1000 kaos (linux-2.4/T/51_softirq.h 1.3 644)
>+++ 6-pre3.1(w)/include/asm-i386/softirq.h Thu, 14 Jun 2001 02:26:16 
+1000 kaos (linux-2.4/T/51_softirq.h 1.3 644)
>@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ do {									\
> 		 
						\
> 			".section .text.lock,\"ax\";"			\
> 			"2: pushl %%eax; pushl %%ecx; pushl %%edx;"	\
>- 
		"call do_softirq;"				\
>+ 
		"call %c1;"			 
	\
> 			"popl %%edx; popl %%ecx; popl %%eax;"		\
> 			"jmp 1b;"					\
> 			".previous;" 
				\
> 		 
						\
> 		: /* no output */					\
>- 
	: "r" (ptr)				 
	\
>+ 
	: "r" (ptr), "i" (do_softirq)				\
> 		/* no registers clobbered */ );				\
> } while (0)
>
>
>