Hi!
Small addition to my previous letter. I just checked patched ppp.c
and found, that there is FILEVERSION 980319
In kernel 2.0.34 (with ppp 2.2.0 part) FILEVERSION is 980512, so
"make kernel" don't copy ppp.c to kernel source tree. It can be made
manually or one have to change FILEVERSION to be later than 980512
Check my Linux page:
http://www.tartu.customs.ee/linux/compile.shtml , section "ppp.c
won't compile on 2.0.34 kernel".
Regards,
Valentin Abramov
Date sent: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:23:41 +0000
From: Nick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Valentin Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URL about PPP 2.3.5 minor typo
> Linux Lists wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Quick question: does someone have a URL pointing to the description of the
> > PPP 2.3.5 typo problem (instead of LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= , should be
> > LINUX_VERSION_CODE <= , or something on this line ...) ??
>
> It's *not* a typo; it's just that the 2.0.35 kernel moved to the same
> form of call to dev_kfree_skb that the recent 2.1.xx kernels use, and
> the logic in the ppp.c file can't deal with this (2.0.35 didn't exist
> when it was written).
>
> Changing the > to < or whatever it was will enable ppp to compile with
> 2.0.35, but it will break it with other (2.1.xx, if I remember right)
> kernels. So if you use this "fix" and later upgrade to a 2.1 series
> kernel, you'll have to "un-fix" it again.
>
> I've put a patch file and a version of ppp.c that will work with any
> (well, maybe not the very recent ones - I haven't tried them) kernel on
> http://www.hizz.demon.co.uk. There aren't any other files there at the
> moment, so it should be obvious what's what. Put the patch file in the
> ppp-2.3.5 directory and patch from it, or just stick the ppp.c in the
> right place under the ppp source tree (can't remember where - is it
> ppp-2.3.5/linux/ppp.c ??), do the "make kernel" business again, build
> the kernel, build ppp and it should work.
>
> --
> Nick Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Valentin Abramov
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