2.6.23.8-34.fc7 source is 2.6.23.9-rc1

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Fri Dec 28 11:58:01 UTC 2007


Craig Campbell (craig) wrote:
> I am trying to build a driver (yet again) for my Highpoint RAID card.  This is apparently required for eadch kernel update.
> 
> I hacked the drive source to remove a reference to scsi_device_cancel() which has apparently been removed.  All went well, until I tried to boot the kernel.  Then, there was a version mis-match.
> 
> For some reason, the kernel source rpm for 2.6.23.8-34.fc7 claims a version of 2.6.23.9-rc1.  What the?!?

You don't need the kernel source to build a module from external source; 
you do need the kernel development package which provides the needed 
headers.


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John

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