First release-candidate for 0.17.4 -- please test!

[Nicolas Boullis]

Hi,

Linux kernel 2.6.31 was released a few days ago, and, once again, it
breaks some API.
Hence, I just packed the first release candidate for 0.17.4.
Nothing new besides the expected support for linux 2.6.31.
As usual you can get it from
  http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/download/em8300-0.17.4-rc1.tar.gz

Many thanks to Felix Kaechele and Jan Willies who both reported some
build problems.

All comments are welcome. Please give it a try and report. (Even if you
don't use a bleeding-edge kernel, things may be broken for old kernels
as well.)


Cheers,

Nicolas

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[Jan Willies]

Hi Nicolas,

Am 15.09.2009 01:59, schrieb Nicolas Boullis:
> All comments are welcome. Please give it a try and report. (Even if you
> don't use a bleeding-edge kernel, things may be broken for old kernels
> as well.)

[jan@server modules]$ LANG=C make
[ ! -x ./update_em8300_version.sh ] || ./update_em8300_version.sh
em8300_version.h
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31/build
SUBDIRS=/usr/local/src/em8300-0.17.4-rc1/modules modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31'
/usr/local/src/em8300-0.17.4-rc1/modules/Kbuild:67: /Rules.make: No such
file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/Rules.make'.  Stop.


  - jan

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[Nicolas Boullis]

Hi Jan and others,

Selon Jan Willies <jan@...>:

> [jan@server modules]$ LANG=C make
> [ ! -x ./update_em8300_version.sh ] || ./update_em8300_version.sh
> em8300_version.h
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31/build
> SUBDIRS=/usr/local/src/em8300-0.17.4-rc1/modules modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31'
> /usr/local/src/em8300-0.17.4-rc1/modules/Kbuild:67: /Rules.make: No such
> file or directory
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/Rules.make'.  Stop.

Oh, thanks for reporting this.
I experienced this at home with linux 2.6.30, and thought it was related to
something strange Debian does with its kernel headers...
Is that using a kernel you built yourself or a kernel provided by a distro?

Anyway, this quick patch should help, and I'll try to pack up a new RC asap.


Cheers,

Nicolas

[em8300.patch]

---

diff -r e10d20ee23a6 modules/Kbuild
--- a/modules/Kbuild Tue Sep 15 01:43:59 2009 +0200
+++ b/modules/Kbuild Tue Sep 15 10:31:46 2009 +0200
@@ -59,8 +59,7 @@
 obj-m += bt865.o
 obj-m += em8300.o
 
-# The following hack tests for old kernels (2.4 and old 2.5).
-ifneq ($(TOPDIR),$(shell /bin/pwd))
+ifeq ($(shell expr $(VERSION) \* 10000 + $(PATCHLEVEL) \* 100 + $(SUBLEVEL) \< 20600),1)
 
 EXTRA_CFLAGS += -include $(TOPDIR)/include/linux/config.h
 

---

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[Jan Willies]

Hi Nicolas,

Am 15.09.2009 10:35, schrieb Nicolas Boullis:
> Is that using a kernel you built yourself or a kernel provided by a distro?

This is a vanilla kernel, which I've built myself.

> Anyway, this quick patch should help, and I'll try to pack up a new RC asap.

Yes, it works fine with your patch.


thanks,

  - jan

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