Kernel 2.4.9, esssolo soundcard, NTFS support

[Joachim Backes <backes@rhrk.uni-kl.de>]

Hi,

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1.

having problems to build a 2.4.9 kernel with soundcard support (esssolo
for ex.). After having built the kernel with sound modules, depmod
complains about unresolved gameport_register_port and gameport_unregister_port.

What has gameport to do with the soundcard support?

As workaround, I configured the kernel with "Joystick support" = yes and
at least "Classic PC analog joysticks and gamepads" = yes.

This helps, but I think, it should be unnecessary.

I had the same problem in 2.4.7 and 2.4.8, and I'm wondering about
the fact that it takes such a long time to fix it.

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2.

Compiling the kernel with NTFS support fails during compilations of the
NTFS modules:

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/fs/ntfs'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigra
phs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack
-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DNTFS_VERSION=\"1.1.16\"   -c -o fs.o fs.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigra
phs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack
-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DNTFS_VERSION=\"1.1.16\"   -c -o sysctl.o sysctl.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigra
phs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack
-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DNTFS_VERSION=\"1.1.16\"   -c -o support.o support.
c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigra
phs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack
-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DNTFS_VERSION=\"1.1.16\"   -c -o util.o util.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigra
phs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack
-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DNTFS_VERSION=\"1.1.16\"   -c -o inode.o inode.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigra
phs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack
-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DNTFS_VERSION=\"1.1.16\"   -c -o dir.o dir.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigra
phs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack
-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DNTFS_VERSION=\"1.1.16\"   -c -o super.o super.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigra
phs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack
-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DNTFS_VERSION=\"1.1.16\"   -c -o attr.o attr.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigra
phs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack
-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DNTFS_VERSION=\"1.1.16\"   -c -o unistr.o unistr.c
unistr.c: In function `ntfs_collate_names':
unistr.c:99: warning: implicit declaration of function `min'
unistr.c:99: parse error before `unsigned'
unistr.c:99: parse error before `)'
unistr.c:97: warning: `c1' might be used uninitialized in this function
unistr.c: At top level:
unistr.c:118: parse error before `if'
unistr.c:123: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `c1'
unistr.c:123: `name1' undeclared here (not in a function)
unistr.c:123: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
unistr.c:124: parse error before `if'
make[2]: *** [unistr.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/fs/ntfs'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_ntfs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/fs'
make: *** [_mod_fs] Error 2

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Regards

Joachim Backes

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