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Message-ID: <20080217145450.GB1403@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:54:50 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@...informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:	Iain Paton <ilp@...l.darkvoyage.org.uk>,
	Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@....com>,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>, marc.jones@....com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	wim@...ana.be
Subject: Re: Geode GX/LX watchdog timer (RESEND)

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:46:01PM +0100, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Iain Paton wrote:
> > Arnd Hannemann wrote:
> > 
> >> I can confirm that it is still working fine :-)
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Has anyone managed to build this as a module against the full 2.6.24
> > release ?
> > 
> > I am seeing the following error:
> > 
> >   CC [M]  lib/zlib_inflate/infutil.o
> >   CC [M]  lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.o
> >   CC [M]  lib/zlib_inflate/inflate_syms.o
> >   LD [M]  lib/zlib_inflate/zlib_inflate.o
> >   Building modules, stage 2.
> >   MODPOST 251 modules
> > ERROR: "geode_mfgpt_toggle_event" [drivers/watchdog/geodewdt.ko] undefined!
> > ERROR: "geode_mfgpt_alloc_timer" [drivers/watchdog/geodewdt.ko] undefined!
> > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> > make: *** [modules] Error 2
> > 
> > 
> > arch/x86/kernel/mfgpt_32.c where these are defined seems to have been
> > built ok and they appear in System.map.
> > 
> > The only other thing I've done is to add "[PATCH] pata_cs5536 Fix
> > secondary port configuration" recently posted by Martin K. Petersen but
> > I don't believe that would cause this.
> > 
> > .config is available at http://pastebin.ca/907299
> 
> Never tried to built it as a module.
> Probably there are issues with that. If I remember correctly I saw a patch in 2.6.25-rc which
> mentioned that using mfgpt in modules won't work. Does this apply to 2.6.24 as well?

For using code from modules it must be explicitely EXPORT_SYMBOL{,GPL}'ed.

Adding
  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(geode_mfgpt_toggle_event);
and
  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(geode_mfgpt_alloc_timer);
below the respective functions in mfgpt_32.c should fix this issue.

> Best regards,
> Arnd Hannemann

cu
Adrian

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