Bug#494144: Checking versions of the symbols in modules
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:23:03PM +0200, Jordi Pujol wrote:
> In a kernel already compiled, we install new modules, some of that depend of
> the others.
> after starting that kernel, the module who has the dependencies can not find
> the symbols that uses from the first module, and does not load.
Yes, you don't provide the correct set of symbol versions for the build
of the second module. You even should get a warning from modpost.
> a good solution is done modifying the kernel source,
No.
If you want a real solution, please start with linux-modules-extra-2.6
and add support to save the Module.symvers somewhere in the package and
use them to get correct versions in dependant packages.
Bastian
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