From: Thomas Dodd <ted@cypress.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Subject: Re: Modutils can't handle long kernel names
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:04:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF2EA76.6010702@cypress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13690.1005366589@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>
Keith Owens wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:23:43 +0100,
> andersg@0x63.nu wrote:
>>On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 04:34:00PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
>>> It is not a modutils problem, it is a fixed restriction on the size of
>>> the uname() fields, modutils just uses what uname -r gives it.
> +uts_len := 64
> +uts_truncate := sed -e 's/\(.\{1,$(uts_len)\}\).*/\1/'
Should this be a fixed length of 64?
Or should it be grabbed form a header somewhere?
So when/if SYS_NMLN/_UTSNAME_LENGTH is changed
longer strings can be used? I check and Solaris 8
defines SYS_NMLN as 257.
Would this break cross-comiling badly?
Are other libc headers needed in the build?
-Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-14 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-09 4:42 Modutils can't handle long kernel names Mike Fedyk
2001-11-09 5:23 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-09 5:40 ` Robert Love
2001-11-09 5:34 ` Keith Owens
2001-11-09 22:23 ` andersg
2001-11-10 4:29 ` Keith Owens
2001-11-14 22:04 ` Thomas Dodd [this message]
2001-11-14 22:25 ` Keith Owens
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