[alsa-devel] Unknown symbols in snd-fm801.ko

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:12:58 +0200,
Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> 
> 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.

I guess it has to do with your kernel config.
Please attach it.


Takashi