Re: [PATCH] Clean up the contents of module.h and moduleparam.h.

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2007 06:43:50 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > Shift the contents of module.h and moduleparam.h so that generic
> > module content is exclusively in module.h, while parameter-specific
> > content is in moduleparam.h.
> >
>
> Causes weird runtime errors with
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
>
> [    1.347665] speedstep-centrino with X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI config is deprecated.
> [    1.347667]  Use X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ (acpi-cpufreq) instead.
> [    1.354537] Using IPI Shortcut mode
> [    1.358936] Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
> [    1.401304] input: PS/2 Mouse as /class/input/input3
> [    1.405223] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /class/input/input4
> [    1.417894] ide_core: no version magic, tainting kernel.
> [    1.421081] ide_core: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> [    1.424279] ide_core: Unknown symbol bus_for_each_drv
> [    1.427463] ide_core: Unknown symbol bus_unregister
> [    1.430503] ide_core: Unknown symbol device_release_driver
> [    1.433563] ide_core: Unknown symbol add_uevent_var
> [    1.436637] ide_core: Unknown symbol device_register
> [    1.439647] ide_core: Unknown symbol device_attach
> [    1.442519] ide_core: Unknown symbol bus_register
> [    1.445282] ide_core: Unknown symbol device_unregister
> [    1.453848] ide_disk: no version magic, tainting kernel.
> [    1.456626] ide_disk: Unknown symbol __ide_error
> [    1.459374] ide_disk: Unknown symbol ide_raw_taskfile
> [    1.462103] ide_disk: Unknown symbol task_in_intr
> [    1.464745] ide_disk: Unknown symbol driver_unregister
> [    1.467390] ide_disk: Unknown symbol ide_map_sg
... snip ...
> [    1.645951] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

ok, that's just weird, since that patch should *theoretically* not
have made any difference in the long run -- any errors in the patch
should have shown up in the build.

i'll look at this closer.

rday
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