Module problem around 1.3.60?

Adam J. Richter (adam@adam.yggdrasil.com)
28 Feb 1996 00:44:50 GMT

I noticed that somewhere around 1.3.60, insmod began to complain about
static symbols included in a .o file that I'd try to load into the
kernel. It was apparently treating them as if they were externals.
For example, every .o file fails to load because "gcc2_compiled" is
not defined (this is a static symbol added to every assembler file
that gcc 2.x.y produces). I do not use KERNEL_MODVERSIONS. I have
upgraded to the modules-1.3.57 package with no change. Modules
used to work just fine and I've been assuming that this is some kind
of obvious bug that would be fixed in the very next kernel release,
but enough time has passed so that I really ought to mention it.

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