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unresolved symbols in kernel 2.0.35



It's probably not the mail-list i should sent it to, so please
tell me where should i send it.

Lots of drivers can't be used as loadable modules (2.0.35
kernel, no patches) because of:

Script started on Sat Sep 12 17:06:21 1998
alpha:~# depmod -a
/lib/modules/2.0.35/fs/nfs.o: unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/smc-ultra32.o: unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/smc-ultra.o: unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/3c503.o: unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/wd.o: unresolved symbol(s)
alpha:~# modprobe nfs
/lib/modules/2.0.35/fs/nfs.o: unresolved symbol __kernel_thread
alpha:~# modprobe smc-ultra32
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/smc-ultra32.o: unresolved symbol _memcpy_toio
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/smc-ultra32.o: unresolved symbol _memcpy_fromio
alpha:~# modprobe smc-ultra
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/smc-ultra.o: unresolved symbol _memcpy_toio
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/smc-ultra.o: unresolved symbol _memcpy_fromio
alpha:~# modprobe 3c503
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/3c503.o: unresolved symbol _memcpy_toio
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/3c503.o: unresolved symbol _memcpy_fromio
alpha:~# modprobe wd
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/wd.o: unresolved symbol _memcpy_toio
/lib/modules/2.0.35/net/wd.o: unresolved symbol _memcpy_fromio
alpha:~# exit

Script done on Sat Sep 12 17:06:53 1998


As we see, __kernel_thread, _memcpy_toio, _memcpy_fromio isn't
correctly exported from the kernel.

Another problem - how to make "make menuconfig" working well.
When PCI support isn't selected directly, but through 
selecting Noname system type (which select PCI automatically),
There is no way to select PCI-only device drivers in other menus.
make config works fine.


And the last - multisession doesn't work when SCSI CDROM has
been set to 2048 bytes blocks (instead of 512) by jumper. It's because
the multisession support code recalculates sector numbers for
512 byte sector instead of checking the logical sector size.

I have:

  Vendor: PIONEER  Model: CD-ROM DR-U32X   Rev: 1.00
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02

But on other drives thuis may not work too.

					Wojtek Puchar


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