Lev Perelmuter wrote: >If a C function is described as "extern inline", gcc doesn't make >the function's name visible to the linker, and it becomes unresolved.
For gcc, "extern inline" means: if the function provided by the inline definition cannot be inlined, call an external routine that must be provided elsewhere. As you attempted to compile your kernel module without any optimization options, inlining is turned off, which means that all inline functions must be provided elsewhere, which they aren't. (This is somewhat deliberately done, as the functions really should be inlined, and if that doesn't work for whatever reason, the kernel developers prefer a linker error to silently duplicating code). This is one of the reasons why kernel code must *always* be compiled with the -O2 option. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand Linux for S/390 Design & Development IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Schoenaicher Str. 220, 71032 Boeblingen Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 --- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
