Re: 2.4.19pre8aa2

[Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 04:54:40PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Only in 2.4.19pre8aa2: 00_comx-driver-compile-1
> >
> >       Export proc_get_inode for kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o so
> >       it can link as a module, noticed by Eyal Lebedinsky.
> 
> Don't do this - proc_get_inode is static for a reason and doing this
> export in the SuSE tree for ages doesn't make it any better.
> 
> The driver needs serious fixing instead.

I agree with this. However, since this driver cannot be built, and
since the latest modutils will exit badly for unresolved, I strongly
believe that the comx driver should not be offered (disable it in
the Config.in) until it is fixed - 2.4 being a stable kernel.

I had to wrap 'depmod' with a script to ignore failures in order
to get through a full build (which includes the kernel plus a few
extra modules like NVdriver, dc395, lm_sensors).

We have already been through this argument before, it is now up to
Marcelo to decide on the policy here.


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