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Re: linux-il Digest V2 #133
By RTFM, 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' should take care of
kernel loadable modules processing but it doesn't. I may be missing the
idea or maybe it is just as you say, no kernel flags messing. Sorry, but I
need to be sure, are you positive about it ?
Thks,
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Miki Lewinger - mikil@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Computer Systems Enginneer
Life Sciences dept
Office Phone: 6461358 (int. 8358)
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> Michael Levinger wrote:
>
> > Yaniv, I have the same situation. I tried (sic) upgrading the kernel to
> > 2.3.99-pre6 to have LVM (I could have it with earlier versions of 2.3 too)
> > and went to a partial disruption of the kernel - unresolved links at boot
> > - to an absolute mess in less than 6 hours. I RTFM'ed the kernel and
> > modules howto and found that 'make modules' and 'make modules_install'
> > only pissed linux off. It was supposed to be user-friendly (...) for
> > Ovadia's sake !
>
> My dear chap, the 2.3.99-pre6 (and -pre8) are still experimental. They have not been exhaustively tested. They have not been compiled with all possible
> permutations of config flags. Nothing is _supposed_ to be user friendly. The computer (or, indeed, the kernel) doen't give an owls ass about the user. You either
> make it work or fail to make it work. More fun that way!
>
> M
>
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