Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre1

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>...
> Summary of changes from v2.4.19 to v2.4.20-pre1
> ============================================
>...
> <[e-mail]> (02/08/05 1.657)
> 	[PATCH] Ftape 64bit/x86-64 fixes
>...

This broke the modular building of ftape. In -pre3:

<--  snip  -->

...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.20-pre3/kernel/drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape.o
depmod:         i8253_lock
...

<--  snip  -->

Alan made the following patch to fix it (already in -ac):

--- linux.20pre2/arch/i386/kernel/time.c	2002-08-13 13:58:33.000000000 +0100
+++ linux.20pre2-ac3/arch/i386/kernel/time.c	2002-08-12 15:17:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
  */

 #include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/param.h>
@@ -116,6 +117,8 @@

 spinlock_t i8253_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;

+EXPORT_SYMBOL(i8253_lock);
+
 extern spinlock_t i8259A_lock;

 #ifndef CONFIG_X86_TSC

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Adrian