[Alsa-user] Re: Redhat 9.0 has snd.o unresolved symbol schedule_work

[Lance A. B. <la...@be...>]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 17:15, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> This fix worked for me too with a Sound Blaster Live! card.  However,
> touch must be invoked **after** invoking configure.  Otherwise configure
> will remove include/linux/workqueue.h .

Hmmm.  I don't think I ran into that problem, but don't remember if I
re-ran configure before or after I touched the file.

> The alsa maintainers should get in touch with LAB, since (I suspect)
> he knows exactly what's going on here.  More systems will most likely
> show this problem as more distros adopt the Native POSIX Thread Library.

I think they need to get in touch with Red Hat and the other people
modifying the stock linux kernel.   I actually picked up this fix from a
previous alsa-user mailing list post.

Personally, I'm half-tempted to build a stock linux kernel on my system
anyway... Some of the stuff Red Hat sticks in the kernel is kinda iffy,
if you ask me.

--[Lance]

> 
> Lance A. Brown" <la...@be...> writes:
> > A very simple work-around for the schedule_work symbol issue is to do
> > the following:
> > 
> > In the top level of the alsa-driver sources run this command:
> > 
> > touch include/linux/workqueue.h
> > 
> > This will cause schedule_work to not be used and the resulting alsa
> > driver modules should load just fine in a default Red Hat RPM kernel for
> > Red Hat 9.  It worked very well for me with my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
> > (CS46xx) card.
> 
> 		Jonathan Ryshpan <jo...@pa...>
> 
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