Bug 118490

Summary:	alsa-driver-1.0.11_rc2, kernel 2.6.15 and CONFIG_PM_LEGACY
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jaak Ristioja <jaak>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jaak Ristioja 2006-01-09 23:38:54 UTC

The modules won't load. The snd module complains:
snd: Unknown symbol pm_register
snd: Unknown symbol pm_unregister

All the other modules complain about unknown symbols, because snd has not been loaded. The compilation process of alsa-driver also outputs warnings about this, but does not fail.

Writing this report, this is what i discovered:

commit bca73e4bf8563d83f7856164caa44d5f42e44cca
Author: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date:   Sun Nov 13 16:06:25 2005 -0800

    [PATCH] move pm_register/etc. to CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, pm_legacy.h
    
    Since few people need the support anymore, this moves the legacy
    pm_xxx functions to CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, and include/linux/pm_legacy.h.
    
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Indeed, i disabled CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, because i really didn't expect anything to depend on it. Anyway, i would have expected this:

 * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options:

To at least issue a warning. I hope this is relevant.

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-10 01:44:30 UTC

I have no experience with those checks, if kernel team can suggest something, it would really rocks :)

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-10 04:20:13 UTC

Okay check added, hopefully it will work.