[Gta04-owner] Linux 3.2-rc3 on GTA04

[NeilBrown]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:55:51 +0100 Johannes Schauer <j.schauer at email.de>
wrote:

> Hi Neil,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 07:46:32AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> > It is odd.
> > 
> > The version information is added by scripts/mod/modpost which is compiled
> > from a .c file.
> > 
> > scripts/Makefile.modpost contains:
> > 
> > modpost = scripts/mod/modpost                    \
> >  $(if $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),-m)                  \
> >  $(if $(CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL),-a,)       \
> >  $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-i,-o) $(kernelsymfile)   \
> >  $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-I $(modulesymfile))      \
> >  $(if $(KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS), $(patsubst %, -e %,$(KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS))) \
> >  $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-o $(modulesymfile))      \
> >  $(if $(CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH),,-S)      \
> >  $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)$(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),-w) \
> >  $(if $(cross_build),-c)
> > 
> > 
> > The important part here is the '-m' which is added if CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.
> > This tells modpost to add the __versions section.
> > 
> > It creates  g_ether.mod.c  which you can look at.
> > I have in it:
> > 
> > static const struct modversion_info ____versions[]
> > __used
> > __attribute__((section("__versions"))) = {
> >         { 0x4db2bff4, "module_layout" },
> >         { 0x6bb8979e, "device_remove_file" },
> >  
> > So you can see the __versions section being created.
> > 
> > Which bit of that is going wrong, I cannot imagine.
> 
> Thank you for your explanations - I now know much more about the build
> process and even figured out the problem:
> 
> what I did so far:
> 
> 	make distclean && make gta04a3_defconfig && make modules -j 5 && make modules_install && make uImage -j 5
> 
> but this doesnt work - the uImage has to be built BEFORE the modules:
> 
> 	make distclean && make gta04a3_defconfig && make uImage -j 5 && make modules -j 5 && make modules_install
> 
> I didnt know that :(
> 
> thanks again so much for investing time into this problem!
> 

That's what I like about the whole openmoko experience - learning new things
that I didn't even known I didn't know :-)

Glad you found a solution.

NeilBrown

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