Re: Updated:Error opening framebuffer device/Unknown symbol

[Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:25:40PM +0530, kaka wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks for the overhelming responses.
> I was able to remove the problem of Unknown symbols by linking the proper
> libraries. Now the problem got reduced to the following messages.
> 
> # insmod brcmstfb.ko
> brcmstfb: Unknown symbol printf
> brcmstfb: Unknown symbol malloc
> brcmstfb: Unknown symbol free
> insmod: cannot insert `brcmstfb.ko': Unknown symbol in module (2): No such
> file or directory

kernel does not have the above mentioned functions, but you could
go over your code and replace all occurrences of the unknown symbols
with these:
printf -> printk
malloc -> kmalloc
free -> kfree

Pay attention to the different parameters used by some of those.

-- 
 ml.