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Re: patch howto???

To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: patch howto???
From: Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:14:16 +0100
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, ksimach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: Sauter AG, Basel
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Christoph Hellwig schrieb:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:19:57AM +0100, Simon Matter wrote:
> > I've installed the kernels mentioned above on several RH 7.2 servers. It
> > has worked - like before - very well. The only problem I had was when
> > upgrading my laptop. The PCMCIA stuff seems broken somehow and unloading
> > kernel modules of PCMCIA devices just crashes the box. I'm sure the
> > problem is that those new kernels were built on RedHat 8.0 which is
> > quite different from 7.x. I then tried to rebuild from source RPM on
> > RedHat 7.2. Building i386 and i586 packages went fine but i686 didn't.
> > I'm happy anyway and thanks for the great product!
> 
> The problem is that these kernel are built with gcc 3.2 - if you build the
> pcmcia modules (or any other kernel module) with gcc 2.96 you'll get struct
> mismatches.  OTOH I'm not even sure whether there are external pcmcia
> module on RH..
> 
> When I tried to build those kernel on my RH7.3 box I got internal compiler
> error, but I have to admit I've not updated to the latest gcc eratta :)
> 
> Maybe we should provide a gcc 2.96 built version for the RH7.x usesers, too..

Would be very nice. I tried on RH 7.2 with all errata updates but the
i686 kernel didn't compile too. BTW, errata packages are almost always
the same for 7.2 and 7.3.


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