2.6.17-1.2328.fc6 needs 'make prepare' for vmware?

[Tom London]

Running today's Rawhide (kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6)

Configuring vmware via 'vmware-config.pl' failed, complaining about
"kernel configuration not valid - run 'make prepare' in
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-i686 to update it".

Running 'make prepare' as described appears to fix.

Besides a case switch (FC6->fc6), did something else change?

tom
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Building the vmmon module.

Building for VMware Workstation 5.5.x.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-i686'
Makefile:452: *** kernel configuration not valid - run 'make prepare'
in /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-i686 to update it.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-i686'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On 6/29/06, Tom London  wrote:
> Running today's Rawhide (kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6)
>
> Configuring vmware via 'vmware-config.pl' failed, complaining about
> "kernel configuration not valid - run 'make prepare' in
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-i686 to update it".
>
> Running 'make prepare' as described appears to fix.

Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing compiling madwifi.

Regards,

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:11:56AM -0700, Tom London wrote:
> Running today's Rawhide (kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6)
>
> Configuring vmware via 'vmware-config.pl' failed, complaining about
> "kernel configuration not valid - run 'make prepare' in
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2328.fc6-i686 to update it".
>
> Running 'make prepare' as described appears to fix.
>
> Besides a case switch (FC6->fc6), did something else change?

If you're trying to build out of tree modules against rawhide right
now, you're _out of your mind_.   The stuff that's in-kernel barely compiles,
(and as seen on this list and others, doesn't even boot in quite a few cases).

It should come as no surprise at all that vmware et al break horribly.
In the last week, 39MB of diffs have been merged. That's going to take
a while to calm down.

Dave