kernel versionning problem

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun Jan 28 19:50:28 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:53:49PM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
 > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:19:24PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
 > > >>>>> "TE" == Tanguy Eric <eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr> writes:
 > > 
 > > TE> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2965
 > > 
 > > Blah, blah, only breaks on Fedora, blah blah, Fedora people don't know
 > > how to behave.
 > > 
 > > So exactly what is it that Fedora is doing wrong here?
 > 
 > Unless the comment in this link is wrong:
 > 
 > http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/posting.php?mode=quote&p=18456&sid=3dcc6f1c6cdc74e8e06177ad8cc2c6f9
 > 
 > There is a bug in the driver anyway.
 > 
 > Theoretically though, the driver is trying to use LINUX_VERSION_CODE to
 > determine if the kernel version is 2.6.20 or greater so it can use struct
 > work.  The fedora kernel is 2.6.20-rc(something), but it munges the kernel
 > version to be 2.6.19.

That's true for rawhide, however this bug is about fc6, which is 2.6.19.2

		Dave

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