Re: Speaking of kernel modules versioning...

[Vincent Cojot <coyote cojot name>]

Brian,

I just noticed something (while looking at the recent patches in the 
2.4.21-20.EL src.rpm). Many of the RH patches include this kind of 
structure (example taken from linux-2.4.21-nfs-updates.patch)

+#ifdef __GENKSYMS__ /* preserve KMI/ABI ksyms compatibility for mod linkage */
+	(something)
+#else
+	(something else)
+#endif

So perhaps all that's needed ( since both you and I are patching a RH 
kernel and not trying to run something completely diferent) is to modify 
our patches to the kernel's source so that they include the above 
structure at the relevant places..

I'll be trying to see if I can adapt the O1 latency patch(es) and see what 
results I'll get.

Regards,

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On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Brian Long wrote:

> Did you ever get an answer to this?  We're patching -15.0.4 with the
> 32-bit UID fix for AMD64, but we like to keep our kernels the same
> across the i386 and AMD64 architectures.  EMC Powerpath will load with
> -15.0.4 but not with our -15.0.4.cisco.1 kernel.
>
> Any ideas how we can fake EMC Powerpath into loading?  Is it the
> MOD_VERSION or some such inside the kernel config?
>
> /Brian/