Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:42:10 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Modutils can't handle long kernel names |
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Hello,
I've gotten into the habbit of adding the names of the patches I add to my kernel to the extraversion string in the top level Makefile in my kernels.
Here's my latest example: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 15 EXTRAVERSION=-pre1+freeswan-1.91+xsched+netdev_random+ext3-0.9.15-2414+ext3-mem_acct+elevator
Unfortunately, with this long kernel version number, modutils (I've noticed depmod and modutils so far...) choke on it.
depmod: depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.15-pre1+freeswan-1.91+xsched+netdev_random+ext3-0.9.15-2414+e#1 SMP Thu Nov 8 20:18:04 PST 2001/modules.dep for writing
uname -r: 2.4.15-pre1+freeswan-1.91+xsched+netdev_random+ext3-0.9.15-2414+e#1 SMP Thu Nov 8 20:18:04 PST 2001
uname -a: Linux mikef-linux.matchmail.com 2.4.15-pre1+freeswan-1.91+xsched+netdev_random+ext3-0.9.15-2414+e#1 SMP Thu Nov 8 20:18:04 PST 2001 #1 SMP Thu Nov 8 20:18:04 PST 2001 i686 unknown
Yep, I know, "don't do that!". Still, can this be fixed easily, or is it one of those things that kbuild 2.5 will fix, and make everything rosy and do my laundry too?
TIA,
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