Re: upgrading modutils may have fixed: unresolved symbols still in 2.4.30-rc2 (usbserial needs symbol tty_ldisc_ref and tty_ldisc_deref which are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL)

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 09:00:59PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:20:01 +0200, 
> Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote:
> >I believe it's because of genksyms during the build process, I had the
> >exact same problem a few weeks ago on a machine with old modutils. So
> >you should have cleaned everything and rebuilt from scratch after
> >installing your new modutils. BTW, the required modutils in
> >Documentation/Changes is still marked as 2.4.10, I hope it is still
> >enough.
> 
> You need modutils >= 2.4.14 to use the combination of
> CONFIG_MODVERSIONS with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() on 2.4 kernels.

Thanks for the precision Keith.

So the following seems appropriate ?

--- ./Documentation/Changes.old	Sat Mar 26 07:42:46 2005
+++ ./Documentation/Changes	Mon Mar 28 13:35:06 2005
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 o  Gnu make               3.77                    # make --version
 o  binutils               2.9.1.0.25              # ld -v
 o  util-linux             2.10o                   # fdformat --version
-o  modutils               2.4.10                   # insmod -V
+o  modutils               2.4.14                   # insmod -V
 o  e2fsprogs              1.25                    # tune2fs
 o  jfsutils               1.0.12                  # fsck.jfs -V
 o  reiserfsprogs          3.6.3                   # reiserfsck -V 2>&1|grep reiserfsprogs

Regards,
Willy

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