Bug 195696 - [RHEL 3 U8]Manual kernel compile on PPC iSeries gives a symbol error
Summary: [RHEL 3 U8]Manual kernel compile on PPC iSeries gives a symbol error
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: ppc64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-06-16 17:28 UTC by Joshua Giles
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-09-13 12:53:15 UTC
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Description Joshua Giles 2006-06-16 17:28:56 UTC
Description of problem:
After a manual compilation of 2.4.21-44 kernel and upon executing:
"make modules_install"  I see a module with unresolved symbols:
"depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.21-43.ELcustom/kernel/drivers/net/sb1000.o
depmod:         .insw"

Config file was the "kernel-2.4.21-ppc64iseries.config"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.21-44 and 2.4.21-43
*Not a regression


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make mrproper && make oldconfig && make dep boot modules modules_install
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.21-43.ELcustom/kernel/drivers/net/sb1000.o
depmod:         .insw

Expected results:
No symbol errors.

Additional info:
I'm not certain how often the sb1000 General Instruments Network card is on a
PPC Iseries, but this doesn't appear to be a high priority item at this stage.

Comment 1 Ernie Petrides 2006-06-16 21:01:56 UTC
Thanks, Josh.  Since this is not a U8 regression, I'm going to change
the product to RHEL (non-beta) and version to 3.

As an FYI to any developer who might look at this, the "sb1000" driver
is listed in the "kernel-unsupported" list.  The warning could be
addressed by disabling CONFIG_NET_SB1000 in one of the ppc64-specific
config files, or possibly by fixing up header file includes (it might
be that include/asm-ppc64/io.h is not getting pulled in).

Comment 2 Prarit Bhargava 2007-09-13 12:53:15 UTC
Josh,

RHEL3 is closed.  I'm going to close this out at CANTFIX.

P.


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