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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Tomasz Motylewski <motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch>
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Subject: Re: ide-probe.c:400: `rtc_lock' undeclared and /lib/modules/..../build 
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 01:20:36 +0100 (CET), 
Tomasz Motylewski <motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch> wrote:
>2.2.18pre19:
>And , whose idea was that "make modules_install" should create
>/lib/modules/..../build symlink to the kernel sources?
>It really breakes depmod -a (modutils 2.3.11)(*)
>
>(*) I could find a workaround, but if it hits me, it will hit lots of other
>people not reading linux-kernel regularly. In my opinion upgrading stable
>kernels should work without any modifications to the existing system.

Agreed, I was unhappy that the build symlink was added to 2.2 kernels.
Now you need modutils >= 2.3.14 for 2.2 kernels :(.  But nobody asks
me, I'm just the kernel module.[ch] and modutils maintainer.

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