On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:11 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 12:06 +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote:
>
> > no ... the fedora kernel has lots of redhat specific patches, which
> > often make their way into the vanilla kernels eventually. the config
> > file will reference these patches which will not be recognised in a
> > vanilla kernel.
>
> Which is why I can't roll a kernel with what I have installed?? I can't
> make mrproper on it, it belches on infiniband something or another. I
I know the kernels in the RH clustering product seem to require the
Infiniband modules. (Don't know why...) But the kernel I built from
the SRPM didn't require anything unusual that I recall.
> guess I have to dnload the src package. I also guess if I'm going to
> have to do that, then I'll also WHACK all of the modules cruft out that
> I recognize, but if I use the existing .config file, it'll barf again?
> <swears> I have the faint feeling my head is gonna hurt again. :) Ric
What exactly are you doing to build your kernel? kernel-devel doesn't
contain kernel source. That's only in the kernel SRPM.
See my instructions in a previous post. I can think of some ways to
work around the config issue if you really want to whack modules (but
the only burden of modules is that they get compiled. They don't get
loaded if you don't load them.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
