On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Kris Verbeeck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1) After booting a linux 2.4.5 kernel with XFS support the
> kernel.h file contains the following lines:
>
> /* Kernel type package kernel2.4.5-xfs-2.4.5-xfs is not
> installed2.4.5-xfs */
>
> #ifndef __MODULE_KERNEL_package kernel2.4.5-xfs-2.4.5-xfs is not
> installed
> #define __MODULE_KERNEL_package kernel2.4.5-xfs-2.4.5-xfs is not
> installed 1
> #endif
>
> Why are they in there? They are not valid C code.
it's bad practice, but harmless - self-documenting.
> 2) Another problem I have is when I want to recompile the
> NVidia kernel module for my GeForce 2 graphics adapter with
> this new patched kernel. I get a lot of errors, where before
> with the unpatched kernel everything went alright. A log
> of the make output is attached to this mail.
>
> Any ideas on this? Haven't found anything in the FAQ's of
> either XFS or NVidia about this.
bad module versioning. this is one of the reasons the first thing
i do in a kernel config is to disable module version checking.
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