Re: [ATTN: Frank] Re: help with comedi module

I'm afraid because of nvidia driver problems I have to flip back to a
2.4 kernel anyway, so I have a feeling this just became a moot point.
Thanks for the help folks :)


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:30:11 +0000, Ian Abbott <abbotti_at_mev.co.uk> wrote:
> [Frank: read my reply - a small fix is required!]
> 
> On 16/03/2005 13:07, Drew Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > Googling hasn't helped me on this one, I've got a fedora core 3 box,
> > running a vanilla 2.6.11.3 kernel. I've got it compiled fine, after
> > patching the inlining problem I had (found the patch in the archives),
> > but now when I modprobe the comedi driver it fails:
> >
> > [root_at_hemi comedi]# modprobe comedi
> > FATAL: Error inserting comedi
> > (/lib/modules/2.6.11.3/comedi/comedi.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or
> > unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> >
> > And the message I get from dmes is:
> > comedi: Unknown symbol remap_page_range
> >
> > I'm outta ideas on how to get this driver to work, anyone seen
> > this/found a workaround to this problem? Thanks in advance for any
> > help!
> 
> This is fixed in the CVS version.  The remap_page_rage function was
> removed from the 2.6.11 kernel, so the current CVS version of comedi
> uses remap_pfn_range instead (for new kernels).
> 
> Frank: the remap_pfn_range function was introduced in 2.6.10, not 2.6.9
> (at least for the vanilla kernel) so the test in the linux/mm.h
> compatibility header is slightly wrong.  This affects people using the
> 2.6.9 kernel.
> 
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