[vortex] building netdrivers on Linux/X86

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, George Luft wrote:

> > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in 
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/pci-scan.o
> > 
> > Hmmm, now this is a real symbol problem.
> > 
> > What does 'insmod pci-scan' report?
> 
> # insmod -v ./pci-scan.o
>   Using ./pci-scan.o
>   Symbol version prefix 'smp_'
...
> # lsmod
>   Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
>   pci-scan                3988   0  (unused)
> 
> I guess that's OK, right?

Yup, that looks OK.
Hopefully the only symbol problem is in cb_shim.o, which can be removed.

For anyone that has a suggestion of how to fix this in the Makefile, the
problem is
   We need to build cb_shim.o when we have the external PCMCIA package,
   which is "always" with 2.2 and earlier, and "sometimes" with 2.4.

   The 2.4 kernel on many distributions has <pcmcia/driver_ops.h>, which
   includes the declarations of register_driver()/unregister_driver(),
   but does not implement them.  As best I can tell, the
   <pcmcia/driver_ops.h> header file is there only because it was added
   once and no one has looked to see if it still means anything.
   

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