pcmcia-cs dilemma

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:46:17PM +1130, Mike Andrew wrote:
>On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 13:17, Net Llama wrote:
>[snippetty hack]
>
>> 2) Build & install pcmcia-cs as per its instructions
>
>llllllama, i don't deal with pcmcia anything, but what is the issue with 
>pcmcia that source has to be rebuilt from non-kernel sources? Aren't the 
>kernel pcmcia good enuff? is it _that_ buggy?

It's not a matter of buggy, but kernel modules are dependent on things that
may be changed from one version of the kernel to the next.  There is a
selection in the kernel configuration that allows one to turn off module
dependency checking, and this can be done succesfully if one is just
rebuilding a kernel to compile in some functions that may otherwise by
modules (e.g. SCSI support).  If one is patching a kernel, and the patch
changes any kernel structures, then all modules should be rebuilt against
the modified kernel sources to be sure that all modules use the same
structures.

Bill
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