Re: unresolved symbol kfree

You need to compile the driver for 2.4.18 kernel. You can not use a
driver which is compiled against a particular kernel version with
another different kernel.

If you have the source for that driver, you can easily compile it for
the 2.4.18 kernel.


On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 12:36, krishna prasad yalavarthi wrote:
> Hello,
>         I am new to redhat linux. Presently i have a streams
> driver on suse linux 7.1 kernel version 2.4.0. when i try to
> install the same module on redhat linux 8.0 kernel version
> 2.4.18-14, i got a problem as
> 
> "unresolved symbol kfree"
> "unresolved symbol kmalloc"
> "unresolved symbol printk"
> 
>        Is there any problem with the kernel 2.4.18? How can i
> solve the problem?
> 
>        For your information, I have build a new sample driver 
> with
> the above functions which is working fine on redhat 8.0, which
> means that the symbols are present. But i don't understand why 
> this problem is comming in my driver.
> 
> Could any one please help me.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Krishna Prasad y
> Ph:23405380(off)
> 
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