[OpenAFS] afsmodname getting it wrong?

[Derek Atkins]

The only reason I distribute 2.4.18-3 modules (and not -4) is that
when I built them I found that the -3 and -4 modules were exactly the
same.  So, why distribute two sets of identical modules?

Sure, the kernels are different, but the modules are 100% compatible.

-derek

Matt Cocker <matt@cs.auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> Hi again
> 
> Further to kernel modules problem
> 
> 
> 
> Kernel panic on SMP systems with ext3 file systems is now fixed.
> Advisory:  RHBA-2002:085-11
> 
> Last updated on:  2002-05-09
> 
> back
> 
> Bug Fix Advisory   Bug Fix Advisory
> 
> Details:
> 
> A few bugs, including one in ext3 that could cause a kernel panic
> on SMP systems, are fixed in this kernel errata.
> 
> In the 2.4.18-3 kernel, a timing change exposed a previously-unseen
> race condition in ext3 which could occasionally cause the kernel
> to panic on SMP systems. The 2.4.18-4 kernel corrects this problem.
> 
> In addition, under the 2.4.18-3 kernel it was not possible to build modules
> for the bigmem kernel (used for machines with memory with
> addresses higher than 4GB) due to a typo in its header file
> (__module_bigmem should have been __module__bigmem in the file
> linux-rhconfig.h). This is now fixed.
> 
> Finally, bugs in the vsnprintf implementation and in the way the kernel
> reads the /proc/stat file are now fixed.
> 
> > Hmm, I'm not sure what "2.4.18-3" is from.  I also notice that you
> > don't have a .bm kernel.  Very odd...
> 

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