2.4.21-rc1 "breaks" older procps

2.4.21-rc1 "breaks" older procps

[Andre Tomt]

Hi kernel gurus.

The IDE changes that went into 2.4.21-pre seems to make older procps
unhappy, at least the one in Debian 3.0r1 (latest stable). Upgrading to
a newer procps seems to fix this, but is this breakage really needed?
"Breaking" stable debian userland is not very nice :-)

I thought about notifying the debian maintainers instead, but somehow I
have this feeling this is just a little fixable detail in the kernel.

Yes, I'm 100% sure this system.map (both actually) is matching the
running kernel.

$ ps aux
{ide_dma_intr} {GPLONLY_ide_dma_intr}
Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.21-rc1-s3 does not match kernel data.
{ide_dma_intr} {GPLONLY_ide_dma_intr}
Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map does not match kernel data.
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
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-- 
Cheers,
André Tomt

RE: 2.4.21-rc1 "breaks" older procps

[Andre Tomt]

In my great tradition on replying to my own posts, here's another one.

> The IDE changes that went into 2.4.21-pre seems to make older 
> procps unhappy, at least the one in Debian 3.0r1 (latest 
> stable). Upgrading to a newer procps seems to fix this, but 
> is this breakage really needed? "Breaking" stable debian 
> userland is not very nice :-)

I forgot to mention what procps version I was using, it is 2.0.7 debian
patchlevel 9.

-- 
Cheers,
André Tomt