Re: difficulty with symbol export

From: Kai Germaschewski (kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 09:55:11 EST


On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, V. Guruprasad wrote:

> at the bottom of net/socket.c, and
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_socket_fileops);
>
> into net/netsyms.c, expecting to be able to call this function
> from a loadable module and to printk the function addresses
> from the file_operations struct.
>
> However, on rebooting into this modified kernel, my test module
> fails to load, saying
>
> foo.o: unresolved symbol get_socket_fileops

Basically, you're doing the right thing - what output does

        grep get_socket_fileops /proc/ksyms

show?

Do you have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS turned on in your kernel config? If so,
you probably want to save your .config, make distclean and rebuild from
scratch - that will likely fix the problem.

--Kai

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