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in this thread Subject2.2.0 Modules: unresolved symbols:  Hi:
I'm running a 2.2.0 kernel - and everything seemed to be fine
[apart from SCSI sense errors, which I'm pretty sure were the
drive flaking out on me, since they continued when I reverted to
2.0.36 - they seem to have gone away now that I've done a
'verify media' from the BIOS - but when I compiled an SMP
kernel, a lot [but not all] of my modules stopped  depmod -ave
typically reports something like:  unresolved symbol:
__global_cli unresolved symbol: __global_save_flags unresolved
symbol: __global_restore_flags  [this is from memory - I don't
have the access to the machine from here]  There are usually
other symbols missing from the modules that don't work, but as
far as I was able to tell [I only had time for a quick check
before rushing in to work this morning] they are all missing
those 3 symbols [and given the '__global', I guess this is some
sort of SMP coding issue].  I haven't ma