Fedora Core 3 Test Update: kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Fri Apr 8 12:38:28 UTC 2005


On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:32:04PM +0200, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> *A:* This error message is displayed when the configuration program 
> successfully builds custom VMware Workstation modules but they are 
> incompatible with your running kernel. This happens when there is a 
> mismatch between your running kernel and the directory of header files. 
> Some distribution vendors ship a directory of header files that exhibits 
> this problem. We encourage them to fix it. In the meantime, please 
> consider recompiling your Linux kernel. This is the only way to ensure 
> that the directory of header files will match your Linux kernel exactly.

*Q*: Why do some of the same modules always give problems
*A*: Because these module vendors either have unbelievebly broken or
     invasive code or unbelievably broken Makefiles and still haven't fixed
     them

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