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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-2.4.0-test9
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 21:55:27 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6695.973335327@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Nov 2000 17:54:51 CDT." <Pine.LNX.3.95.1001103175055.612A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:54:51 -0500 (EST), 
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
>(1)	I have SCSI modules that have to be installed upon boot
>from initrd. Insmod failed with "Can't find the kernel version that
>this module was compiled with..."

"Can't find the kernel version that this module was compiled with..."
means that the module object does not contain symbol __module_kernel_version.
What does 'nm' on the module report?

>modutils, downloaded and installed today. Also `insmod -f` doesn't
>work (not a kernel problem, yes, I know).

Does not work how?  Details please.

>The only fix I could come up with was to remove EXTRAVERSION=test9 in
>the top-level Makefile (actually set it to nothing), then recompile
>the whole kernel. This problem will get others, I am sure.

I suspect user error, probably old modules lying around somewhere.  A
compile out of the box for 2.4.0-test9 worked fine for me and AFAICT
for everybody else.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-04 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-03 22:54 linux-2.4.0-test9 Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-04  1:05 ` linux-2.4.0-test9 Jeff Garzik
2000-11-04  2:49   ` linux-2.4.0-test9 Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-04  3:12     ` linux-2.4.0-test9 Jeff Garzik
2000-11-04  8:20       ` linux-2.4.0-test9 Ingo Oeser
2000-11-04  8:26         ` linux-2.4.0-test9 Jeff Garzik
2000-11-04 10:55 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2000-11-06 14:45   ` linux-2.4.0-test9 Richard B. Johnson

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