hello, Rusty: I encountered a problem when modules compiled built-in with bzImage:
open-iscsi is an iSCSI software, it has a userspace daemon(iscsid) and a userspace mani tool(iscsiadm) and a kernel module (scsi_transport_iscsi), recently the kernel module has been accepted into the official kernel release; since the module licensed with GPL, it could be compiled as built-in, but when I compiled the module within the bzImage, the problem appeared: tux ~ # iscsid -f iscsid: Missing or Invalid version from /sys/module/scsi_transport_iscsi/version. Make sure a up to date scsi_transport_iscsi module is loaded and a up todate version of iscsid is running. Exiting... this is just because iscsid hope there's an external module could be under /sys/module, and read the kernel module's version information, but if the module compiled built-in, all its module information discarded and it doesn't appeared under /sys/module/, that would break iscsid. Now the problem is: Should we provide module information under /sys/module/<module-name>/... even if the module compiled built-in with bzImage? Or just this module(scsi_transport_iscsi) should be marked with [M] only? if the former solution is preferred, I would be happy to work on MODULE_INFO-like macros improvements with CONFIG_MODULE undefined. -- Denis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/