Comment 23 for bug 11368

Message-Id: <1102350007.25052.98.camel@thanatos>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:20:08 +0100
From: Thomas Hood <email address hidden>
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Cc: <email address hidden>,
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Subject: New release changed symbols thus rendering modules unloadable

reopen 284356
severity 284356 important
reassign 284356 kernel-image-2.4.27-i386
reassign 284371 kernel-image-2.4.27-i386
severity 284463 important
tags 284463 - pending
reassign 284463 kernel-image-2.4.27-i386
severity 284181 important
tags 284181 - pending
reassign 284181 kernel-image-2.4.27-i386
merge 284356 284371 284463 284181
thanks

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> We don't support propritary modules.

The original report (#284356) was submitted by Joey Hess and made no
reference to proprietary modules. This affects modules shipped by
Debian too.

The problem is that a new Debian release of the "same" kernel (2.4.27-1)
has changed symbol version suffixes, thus breaking modules that were
compiled against earlier releases of this kernel.

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Thomas Hood