Re: [VM/MEMORY-SICKNESS] 2.4.15-pre7 kmem_cache_create invalid opcode

["Jeff Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
Cc: <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [VM/MEMORY-SICKNESS] 2.4.15-pre7 kmem_cache_create invalid
opcode


>    From: "Jeff Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
>    Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:54:21 -0700
>
>    I am building an NWFS module external of the kernel tree, and unless
make
>    dep
>    has been run, the default behavior of the includes causes me to drop
into
>    the
>    BUG() trap.
>
> When you change configuration options, you have to run make
> dep again, that is a known requirement of the 2.4.x build system

OK.  Cool.  Now we are making progress.  I think this is a nasty problem.
There
are numerous RPMs that will build against the kernel tree and be busted.  I
would
expect an rpm -ba on your DEFAULT kernel in Redhat with the sources
contained
in the kernel.rpm files to also be broken unless someone has done this.  You
probably should have someone check this out.  I just built the SCI drivers
against
2.4.15-pre7 and they blow up as well.

Jeff

> like it or not :-)