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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:13:45 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:15:39AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > always assume a stock kernel layout and will point to 
> > /usr/src/linux/include for modversioned includes and files.  
> 
> You can't assume that. The big problem is right now nobody has set an
> agreed location for kernel sources, you also cant assume they will be
> present.
> 

I need a way from the RPM utility to determine this without writing some 
huge ugly bash script.  The 7.1 release is not putting it where uname 
will return the correct name string.

> Its something the FHS needs to address eventually (where eventually is sooner
> not later)
> 
> > Please also note that the RedHat 7.1 Fischer release with 
> > the Linux 2.4.0 kernel will report bogus .modinfo relocation
> > warnings generated by the assembler while building some .c files 
> > against the kernel source tree.  These messages are a due to 
> > severe bugs previously reported in the gcc 2.96 compiler and 
> > assembler on RedHat versions 7.0 and above (the list for gcc 2.96 
> > keeps growing).  
> 
> Nope. They are due to bugs in the kernel source. The bug in question is
> intentionally left in the kernel sources to handle issues with older modutils.
> Keith posted 2.4.x patches to drop support for older modutils and in doing so
> remove the warning.
> 
> Alan

Hummm.  Where are the patches for 2.4 to correct this?  They are not posted
with the 7.1 release.  They need to be.  The compiler not supporting 
#ident for CVS is a show stopper, and needs correcting ASAP.  How can 
someone use CVS properly with this, Alan?

:-)

Jeff

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