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Re: arla 0.12 has missing modversions.h
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Alan Washburn)
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From: Geoffrey Alan Washburn <gw2@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: arla 0.12 has missing modversions.h
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On 30 Sep 1998, Magnus Ahltorp wrote:
> > this may be trivial, but recent versions of xfs/linux/xfs_locl.h
> > have not included the header file <linux/modversions.h>. On RedHat
> > 5.1, at least, the resulting xfs.o module won't load if this is
> > missing (many unresolved kernel syms).
>
> Correct behaviour of modversion handling has always been a problem. It
> works perfectly on RedHat 5.1 if you run a 2.1 kernel (sparc) compiled
> with version support.
>
> It also works on a Slackware system (with libc5 and 2.0 kernel).
Actually it doesn't. At least not with Slackware 3.5, libc5, and
a 2.0.35 kernel, which is what I've been using. Alex's fix solved my
problems, however.
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