Hi,
Yesterday I was trying to compile the latest snapshot of alsa-driver on top of kernel 2.6.28_rc8. When looking through the console output of make, I saw two warnings given by LD reporting two unknown symbols in snd-fm801.ko(driver for a ForteMedia sound card):
Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 170 modules WARNING: "snd_tea575x_init" [/var/pisi/alsa-driver-1.0.18a_20081214-39/work/alsa-driver/pci/snd-fm801.ko] undefined! WARNING: "snd_tea575x_exit" [/var/pisi/alsa-driver-1.0.18a_20081214-39/work/alsa-driver/pci/snd-fm801.ko] undefined!
laptop alsa-driver # grep -rHIn "snd_tea575x_init" * alsa-kernel/i2c/other/tea575x-tuner.c:195:void snd_tea575x_init(struct snd_tea575x *tea) alsa-kernel/i2c/other/tea575x-tuner.c:251:EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_tea575x_init); alsa-kernel/include/tea575x-tuner.h:51:void snd_tea575x_init(struct snd_tea575x *tea); alsa-kernel/pci/fm801.c:1447: snd_tea575x_init(&chip->tea); i2c/other/tea575x-tuner.c:236:void snd_tea575x_init(struct snd_tea575x *tea) i2c/other/tea575x-tuner.c:309:EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_tea575x_init); include/sound/tea575x-tuner.h:51:void snd_tea575x_init(struct snd_tea575x *tea); pci/fm801.c:1448: snd_tea575x_init(&chip->tea); pci/fm801.c.orig:1447: snd_tea575x_init(&chip->tea); sound/i2c/other/tea575x-tuner.c:195:void snd_tea575x_init(struct snd_tea575x *tea) sound/i2c/other/tea575x-tuner.c:251:EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_tea575x_init); sound/include/tea575x-tuner.h:51:void snd_tea575x_init(struct snd_tea575x *tea); sound/pci/fm801.c:1447: snd_tea575x_init(&chip->tea);
So this symbols are exported by tea575x-tuner.c. There's a card option parameter in configuration of alsa-driver called 'fm801-tea575x-bool'.But eventhough, I'm configuring the package with, "--with-card-options=all", I'm getting this warnings. As a consequence it's impossible to load the module snd-fm801.
I think that it's a problem with Kconfig stuff but I really don't get how alsa-driver package manages the whole thing with alsa-kernel directory, patchsets etc.(BTW, is there any documentation about the mechanism in alsa-driver, and the functions of separate git repos alsa-driver, alsa-kernel, stub, etc.?)
I'm having the issue with 2.6.25.x && (1.0.17 || 1.0.18), 2.6.28_rc8 && (1.0.18)
so the problem may not be caught until this time because there exists a few distributions which ships alsa-driver(and other kernel modules) separately.
Regards,