Re: Stop the linux kernel madness - SOLVED!

Re: Stop the linux kernel madness - SOLVED!

[4Front Technologies]

Hi Folks,

Here's the solution we have found:

With the latest SuSE 2.6.5-7.75 kernel sources:

The problem is that /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.75/build points to
/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.75-obj which is some kind of wierd directory
that has:

.  ..  bigsmp  debug  default  out  smp

So simply removing this symlink and putting back a link to
/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.75 fixes our problems.

So the question is who is at fault here?. We used KBUILD to
build our modules and obviously the build link in /lib/modules/<kernel>/build
isn't pointing to the correct source tree.


best regards
Dev Mazumdar
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Re: Stop the linux kernel madness - SOLVED!

[Duncan Sands]

> Here's the solution we have found:
> 
> With the latest SuSE 2.6.5-7.75 kernel sources:
> 
> The problem is that /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.75/build points to
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.75-obj which is some kind of wierd directory
> that has:
> 
> .  ..  bigsmp  debug  default  out  smp
> 
> So simply removing this symlink and putting back a link to
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.75 fixes our problems.
> 
> So the question is who is at fault here?. We used KBUILD to
> build our modules and obviously the build link in /lib/modules/<kernel>/build
> isn't pointing to the correct source tree.

I don't know if this is the solution to your problem, but /usr/src/linux/README.SUSE
says

  (3)  Compile the module(s) by changing into the module source directory
       and typing ``make -C /usr/src/linux
          O=/usr/src/linux-obj/$ARCH/$FLAVOR M=`pwd` modules''.
          Substitute $ARCH and $FLAVOR with the architecture and flavor
          for which to build the module(s).

I hope this helps,

Duncan.

Re: Stop the linux kernel madness - SOLVED!

[Marcos D. Marado Torres]

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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, 4Front Technologies wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Here's the solution we have found:
>
> With the latest SuSE 2.6.5-7.75 kernel sources:
>
> The problem is that /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.75/build points to
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.75-obj which is some kind of wierd directory
> that has:
>
> .  ..  bigsmp  debug  default  out  smp
>
> So simply removing this symlink and putting back a link to
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.75 fixes our problems.
>
> So the question is who is at fault here?. We used KBUILD to
> build our modules and obviously the build link in /lib/modules/<kernel>/build
> isn't pointing to the correct source tree.

IF the fault here is SUSE's, then submit THEM a bug report and stop whining in lkml.
If you did your homework in the first place you would see that that's not a
Linux Kernel problem and would not start this whole discussion.

All you've managed with this was ening with any reputation 4Front Technologies
could have between lkml readers.


Mind Booster Noori

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