[tulip-bug] Problem linking tulip driver into kernel in RH7

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Julia Steinberger wrote:

> Our problem arises when we try to compile the kernel with the tulip.c
> driver linked into it -- not as a loadable module. Our basic approach is
> 
> ===>1.
> to compile pci-scan.c and tulip.c (using
> kgcc -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c                    

Ahhh, don't do this for a built-in driver.  You don't want -DMODULE.

> We then move the pci-scan.o and tulip.o executables into the 
> /usr/src/drivers/net/ directory, and modify the 

Just move the *.c and *.h files there, not *.o files.

> /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/Makefile as described in
> http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html#single .
...
> drivers/net/net.a(Space.o)(.data.init+0x0): undefined reference to
> `tulip_probe'

Exactly the error you would expect when the Tulip driver is compiled as
a module.

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