Bug 6294

Summary:	tty_buffer_request_room, tty_insert_flip_string_flags undefined symbols at insmod time
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Philippe Vouters (Philippe.Vouters)
Component:	Serial	Assignee:	Russell King (rmk)
Status:	REJECTED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	bunk
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.16-1	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Philippe Vouters 2006-03-27 14:02:58 UTC

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.6.15
Distribution: Fedore Core 4
Hardware Environment: Intel 536ep/537 drivers
Software Environment: Upgrading driver to kernel 2.6.16
Problem Description: tty_buffer_request_room, tty_insert_flip_string_flags are
exported via EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL

Steps to reproduce: insmod any serial driver that use of of these two routines
and dmesg.

Comment 1 Philippe Vouters 2006-03-27 14:06:36 UTC

See http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=482831#post482831

Comment 2 Alan 2006-03-27 15:33:32 UTC

Providing your driver is GPL the insmod code will correctly allow you to use the
functionality.

Comment 3 Adrian Bunk 2006-03-31 01:04:29 UTC

If your driver is not GPL'ed, this is expected and your problem.

If your driver is GPL'ed, please reopen this bug and post the URL to the
complete source to this bug so that I can debug your problem.