RE: Linux-2.1.125 ... pre-2.2 imminent

Jordan Mendelson (jordy@wserv.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:08:00 -0400

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > If there are people out there that know that 1.03 fixes real
> problems from
> > 1.02, I'd be happy to test it out. Donald hasn't been sending
> me patches,
> > but if somebody else sends me the diff I can try it. However, if it's a
> > question of multicast working at all versus a question of non-multicast
> > being stable, then basic stability wins every time.
>
> I get heaps of warnings and an error, when I place the eepro100.c file
> in
> my drivers/net directory. The directions on Donalds site tells me to
> just
> overwrite the existing file, but that doesn't seem to work.
>
> Someone care to enlighten me?

Just a little bug. need to place #if/#endif MODULE lines before and after
the MODULE_* stuff...

--- eepro100.c.OLD Mon Oct 12 10:05:06 1998
+++ eepro100.c Mon Oct 5 18:09:51 1998
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>

/* Unused in the 2.0.* version, but retained for documentation. */
+#ifdef MODULE
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > 0x20118
MODULE_AUTHOR("Donald Becker <becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Intel i82557/i82558 PCI EtherExpressPro driver");
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@
MODULE_PARM(max_interrupt_work, "i");
MODULE_PARM(multicast_filter_limit, "i");
#endif
+#endif /* MODULE */

#define RUN_AT(x) (jiffies + (x))

Jordan

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