[linux-dvb] Re: <sheepish> Cry for help :)

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Gavin Hamill wrote:
> <shuffle>
>
> I thought I was better than this.. but I'm having trouble compiling the 1.0.1 
> DVB driver release....
>
> I'm running Debian 3.0, with Debian's own 2.4.18-686 kernel.  I also have the 
> kernel-source-2.4.18, with the '686' .config file in /usr/src/linux/.config, 
> and I've 'make menuconfig', save, and 'make dep'd... 
> So, yes I have sources to match the kernel I'm running, and there's a symlink 
> to the sources from /lib/modules/2.4.18-686/build..
>
> The driver compilation itself is clean, with no warnings of 'xxxx is 
> previously declared in yyyyy.h', but when I 'make insmod' I get loads of 
> unresolved symbol errors:
>
> sync
> (                                               \
> insmod videodev;                                \
>                                 \
> insmod dvb-core.o dvb_shutdown_timeout=0;       \
> make -C frontends insmod;                       \
>  make -C av7110 insmod;  make -C b2c2 insmod; \
> )
> Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-686/kernel/drivers/media/video/videodev.o
> insmod: a module named videodev already exists
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol skb_over_panic_Red027624
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R11e2973b
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol mem_map_R22d9a713
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol devfs_register_R523235af
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol remove_wait_queue_Rb7355d75
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol init_mm_R33601568
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol kernel_thread_R7ca341af
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol devfs_mk_dir_R5b0cefd8
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol devfs_unregister_R8e255fa4
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol alloc_skb_R6c77335c
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol __pollwait_Rf0ced4f0
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol add_wait_queue_R3ed1ea8a
> dvb-core.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev_Rc017d46d
>
> I've made sure that 'input', 'evdev' and 'videodev' are loaded, and the only 
> reference I can find in the kernel to skb_over_panic is regarding 
> net/core/skbuff.c .
>
> I saw the 'devfs' symbols, but I don't use devfs, and I've run the 
> 'makedev.napi' script already...
>
> Any advice warmly welcomed..
your running kernel is not matching the kernel source tree and config 
you used to compile the driver. The config had module versioning 
enabled, the running kernel probably not.

Holger



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