build for 2.4 kernel possible?

Hi there

Is it still possible to build the tulip driver into the kernel (i.e. not
as a module) with the 2.4 kernel series?

I've tried 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 with no success.

Using the 3.0 release of netdrivers (tulip.c 0.92x), and with a small mod
to pci-scan.c to stop the inclusion of pci_find_capability (which is
already in the kernel), it will build OK either as module or builtin. 
When as module, it works fine (so both pci-scan.o and tulip.o must be
functional) but when linked into the kernel, the driver does not show up
at all when you boot the kernel!

For all releases of netdrivers >3.0, i.e. 3.1 3.2 3.3 & 3.4, it will build
and work fine as module but I cannot get the build to complete when trying
builtin (or rather, not builtin!).  The problem is the final link of net.o
into vmlinux - there are a bunch of unresolved references coming from
pci-scan.o.  Basically, all the calls to pci_read_config_word,
pci_write_config_dword, etc.

Guessing here, but it appears that the reason that they are unresolved is
because in fact pci-scan.o has been built "module fashion" even though the
-DMODULE is not specified for the compile.  Because the unresolved symbols
in pci-scan.o have lots of funny numbers appended to them, which, as far
as I can make out, means that the code expects to get linked at runtime as
a module rather than statically at build time.

So my (tentative) conclusion is that somewhere in the pea-soup of
conditional defines in pci-scan.c and/or kern_compat.h, there is a mistake
which results in the wrong type of build.  But it is beyond me to track it
down ;-(

Any help greatly appreciated.  If in fact this driver is dead as regards
builtin use, I'd really like to be told that (Donald!) so that I can just
go out and buy a whole new bunch of cards ;-(.

TIA

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John Sutton
SCL Internet
URL http://www.scl.co.uk/
Tel. +44 (0) 1239 711 888
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