Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > * your statement about compatibility makes no sense. There is NO binary
> > module compatibility, because critical kernel structures change with
> > compiler and kernel options.
>
> Whats going on is that the emu10k makefiles don't set CPU= and thus generate
> incorrect binaries for the kernel. Its not stunningly obvious that you need
> to set this I grant but you do.
>
> Because they are the module they inherit valid kernel version info for their
> miscompiled object so that it loads and explodes
>
> Alan
So the only absolutely safe way of compiling a module outside the kernel three
is to have the .config available plus all the arch/*/Makefiles?
Rui Sousa
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