Re: Unresolved Symbol in Module

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>]

fwiw, i have *precisely* the same problem.

and just like you, i can make the problem disappear by turning off the
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS flag.  figured that out a couple of days ago, and i've
been trying to come up with a solution before posting to this list.  :)

pete

On Thu 08 Mar 01,  5:13 PM, Narayana, Venkat A. said: 
> Thanks for suggesting that the trouble could be with versions.
> It's true! Even though i didn't understood the 'why/what/where'
> about versions, i could solve my problem by turning of CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
> flag.
> 
> Thanks again.
> Venkat Narayana
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph A. Knapka [mailto:jknapka@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 4:30 PM
> To: 'kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org'
> Subject: Re: Unresolved Symbol in Module
> 
> 
> Timur Tabi wrote:
> > 
> > ** Reply to message from "Narayana, Venkat A."
> <NarayVA@nsc-msg01.network.com>
> > on Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:22:19 -0600
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I am learning to write kernel modules, and while experimenting
> > > with a simple module, i got
> > > " hello.o: unresolved symbol printk_Rsmp_1b7d4074" error
> > > while loading this module via insmod hello.o command.
> > 
> > You're probably not including the header file for printk.
> 
> If that were the case his code would probably not compile
> successfully.
> 
> This looks like a module versioning problem. Be sure you are
> inserting the module into the same kernel whose header
> files the module was compiled against.
> 
> -- Joe
> 
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