Re: A patch for make install on 2.4 and 2.2 linux.

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 20:23, John Ogness wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The final step:
> 
> >  echo "	/sbin/depmod -ae -F /boot/System.map" >> Makefile
> 
> seems to me to be too much. I don't think we can assume that people have
> their kernel symbols stored in /boot/System.map. Is it ok if we reduce it to:
> 
> # /sbin/depmod -ae

It will be better, but with me, there is some problem as given below
without it. Its RH9 machine with kernel 2.4.20-8. See if it works for u.


mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/extra
cp dazuko.o /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/extra
/sbin/depmod -ae
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/extra/dazuko.o
depmod:         dput
depmod:         getname
depmod:         __wake_up
depmod:         __generic_copy_from_user
depmod:         path_release
depmod:         kmem_cache_free
depmod:         schedule
depmod:         kmalloc
depmod:         unregister_chrdev
depmod:         register_chrdev
depmod:         __d_path
depmod:         do_execve
depmod:         __get_free_pages
depmod:         boot_cpu_data
depmod:         remove_wait_queue
depmod:         __mntput
depmod:         sys_close
depmod:         __out_of_line_bug
depmod:         free_pages
depmod:         names_cachep
depmod:         loops_per_jiffy
depmod:         kfree
depmod:         path_init
depmod:         add_wait_queue
depmod:         sprintf
depmod:         fsync_dev
depmod:         path_walk
depmod:         printk
depmod:         __generic_copy_to_user

> 
> John Ogness
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Tushar
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