arla 0.12 has missing modversions.h

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Wed Sep 30 17:21:30 CEST 1998


>  > 	Hmmm... I thought I made myself rather clear, but I'll try it
>  >   again differently.  You had said that the current version of arla (0.12)
>  >   works under Slackware (along with libc5 and 2.0 kernels).  It doesn't,
>  >   at least in my case, it has a problem with unresolved symbols when
>  >   loading the xfs module.  I included linux/modversions.h as Alex
>  >   suggested and the problem went away.  Any questions?
>  
>  In the Slackware setup that I have tested arla on, linux/modversions.h
>  does not exist, which makes it an error to include it.
>  
>  Please note that there are a lot of degrees of liberty involved, and I
>  would like a solution that works on all systems, but every patch that
>  has been sent to me has failed to work on some platforms. If you have
>  a patch that works everywhere, I'd be glad to incorporate it.

Does linux/modversions.h work everywhere it exists? Or rather, if it exists and
including it causes a failure, what's the failure? I'm not saying it doesn't
cause a failure when you include it, I'm just trying to gather information.

-D







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