Re: 2.5.59-mm7

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org> wrote:
>
> Looks like something got missed...  I get this with mm7
> 
> if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map  2.5.59-mm7; fi
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.5.59-mm7/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.ko needs unknown symbol xtime_lock
> 

aww, that's not fair.

xtime_lock was _always_ referenced by apm.c, and never exported to modules.

The only reason it ever worked was that apm does not compile for SMP, and
write/read_lock() are no-ops on uniprocessor.

ho hum, thanks, I shall add the export.


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