[plug] Unresolved module references

[raven at themaw.net]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Jim wrote:
> | However, the unresolved references have returned.
> 
> FWIW I've often got "unresolved references" in one or two modules and
> had no idea what caused it.  The modules in question still loaded
> properly with insmod, just depmod complained.  The last few kernels
> that I've built seem to have been okay in this regard, but I've no
> idea why...  i.e. I'd like an answer to what causes this too :-)
> 

Well the cause is clear enough. The symbol refered to is not being
exported in the source. This can be due to errors in patch sets, just 
plain errors in kernel source or defining code that is not included due to 
a config option.

Ian