Re: HP Pavillion n5270
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:26:46PM -0500, John R. Sheets wrote:
> On Apr 04, 2001, Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:
> > > Another issue I have with the maestro3 driver is that depmod -a keeps
> > > complaining about unresolved symbols. I suppose I may have compiled
> > > it against the wrong kernel source tree or something. However, since
> > > it loads and runs, I haven't been motivated enough to dig any deeper.
> >
> > The unresolved symbols must be in a module you haven't tried to load yet.
> > When you try, insmod will refuse to load it.
(I should have read your message more carefully, I didn't notice that you said
the module with the broken syms did actually load.)
>
> The maestro3 module does successfully load, though. Does that make sense?
>
> <root@exodus ~># lsmod | grep maestro
> maestro3 25232 1
> ac97_codec 7152 0 [maestro3]
> soundcore 2384 2 [maestro3]
> <root@exodus ~># depmod -a
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.18/misc/maestro3.o
>
AFAIK, that doesn't make sense. Maybe I wrongly assumed that depmod would
check against the currently running kernel. Could depmod be checking
symbols against a wrong System.map or something? (I think there are options
to do so, but I didn't think that was default.)
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