Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:33:50 -0700 (PDT) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | PPP and kernel won't be friends |
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Hello,
I've had some problems getting ppp-2.3.5 working with linux-2.0.35. The "kinstall" script replaces most of the includes but skips the ppp.c file (says it's newer). But when trying to compile with PPP as a module, it dies with this:
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/bryan/work/imports/linux-2.0.35-ssl/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /home/bryan/work/imports/linux-2.0.35-ssl/include/linux/modversions.h -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ppp.c ppp.c: In function `ppp_init_ctrl_blk': ppp.c:465: structure has no member named `ddinfo' ppp.c:466: structure has no member named `ddinfo' ppp.c: In function `ppp_changedmtu': ppp.c:585: cannot convert to a pointer type ...
And dozens of other errors.
If, however, I replace the ppp.c with the one from ppp-2.3.5 by hand and flip-flop the comparison below from lt to gt (in ppp.c, line 3076), I get a clean compile:
/* * Send a frame to the remote. */ #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < VERSION(2,1,86) #define FREE_SKB(skb) dev_kfree_skb(skb) #else #define FREE_SKB(skb) dev_kfree_skb(skb, FREE_WRITE) #endif
I have not yet tried the stock 2.0.35 PPP. What is the current official combination of files for PPP under 2.0.35?
IMHO I sincerely think the FILEVERSION/carbon-based-CVS idea needs to be replaced with something that will better prevent this ppp vs. linux-kernel skewage.
Comments?
-bp -- B. James Phillippe . bryan@terran.org UNIX Software Engineer . http://www.terran.org/~bryan Member since 1.1.59 . finger:bryan@earth.terran.org MOTM: Waiting for the DSL to go in :)
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