>Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:48:49 -0800 (PST) >From: Matthew Gierlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: David Grothe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, robinkent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi Dave: > > Well it appears that Red Hat has done the unspeakable. Not only > did they back port 2.5 kernel code, they also snarfed in some > 2.6 kernel code. Red Hat is distributing this highly irregular > version of the Linux kernel as the base OS for their going > forward Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 Linux product. > > More troublesome is that many of our customers are expecting > STREAMs based products to be supported on RH E3.0. LiS will > not compile on RH E3.0 because of this (and perhaps other) > abomination. > > Since RH has announced end of life and discontinued support of > RH 8.0/9.0 and is standardizing their future offerings on E3.0, > there does not seem to be much of an option other than to adapt > LiS to E3.0. > > Your thoughts and suggested actions will be appreciated. > > Gratefully, Matt Gierlach - Adax, Inc. > >On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, David Grothe wrote: > > My understanding is that Red Hat back-ported a bunch of 2.5 code into THEIR > version of 2.4.21. Very "helpful", that, having a hybrid of two different > major kernel versions in the same source release. LiS might just have to > take a pass on this distribution. On the other hand I have not had time to > look into it here so there might be a straightforward kludge, er, workaround. > -- Dave > > At 12:18 PM 8/13/2003 Wednesday, Paul Landay wrote: > > > > > >The UnitedLinux 1.0 Service Pack 3 beta, which also > >uses a 2.4.21 based kernel, does not have this problem. > >Was a bugzilla item opened with RedHat about this? > >I haven't tried the RedHat EL3 (taroon) yet, > >maybe next week. > > > >Paul Landay > > > > > > > David Grothe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Tue, 05 Aug 2003 15:19:01 -0500 > > > Stock 2.4.21 has this field. It was eliminated/changed in the 2.5 > > > kernel. I bet that Red Hat has imported 2.5 code into the 2.4 kernel. I > > > sure wish they wouldn't do that when it involves structure changes. > > > Since this is a beta why not report it to Red Hat has a problem? > > > -- Dave > > > > > > >> At 02:06 PM 7/31/2003 Thursday, you wrote: > > >> I just installed RedHat AS Beta taroon. with kernel source. > > >> I attempted to compile Lis and I get an error in head/dki.c line 121: > > >> structure has no member named 'list' > > >> I had started with 2.16.11 first and had the same error. > > >> Any ideas? > > >> Jerry > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Linux-streams mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-streams mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams >
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