That's the problem, we are still deciding between Redhat and SuSE so we don't have a support contract yet, that why I had to get the patches and try to apply them.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can get the whole timer patch already applied to the 2.4.7 kernel from > the SuSE service site as an rpm. Assuming, of course, you're paying for > service. > > "Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm > not so sure about the Universe." - Albert Einstein > Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 > VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > > >>---------- >>From: Robert Reuscher >>Reply To: Linux on 390 Port >>Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:00 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Timer Patch for 2.4.7 >> >>I'm trying to apply the No timer patch on our SuSE 2.4.7 system. I >>loaded the source rpm from the beta distributions disks, loaded the >>patches from the IBM developerworks site, and was able to use some of >>the .diff files with no problem (3, 4, 5 ,6-lcs, and 7). The >>linux-2.4.7-s390.diff and s390-1, and s390-2 told me that they were >>already applied when I tried to apply them. When I tried to put on the >>-timer-4.diff file, it applies most of the patch but when it tries to >>patch the ksyms.c file I get the message >> >>Hunk #1 FAILED at 434. >>1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file >>linux-2.4.7/kernel/ksyms.c.rej >> >> >>Not being overly familar with .diff files, it looks like that section of >>the diff file it is trying to change the code in the file from: >>EXPORT_SYMBOLS(jiffies); >> >>to >> >>#ifndef CONFIG_NO_HZ_TIMER >>EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies); >>#endif >> >>this is down around line 454 in my version of the program, plus it has >>and extra line EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_wait4); >> >>I would think I could add these two lines and continue on, any reason >>this should not work? >>-- >>Robert Reuscher >>NSDHAT >>972.884.6577 >> >> >> > > -- Robert Reuscher NSDHAT 972.884.6577
