Re: Newbie: ENBD on kernel 2.6?

Hi.

"Also sprach Roland Paterson-Jones:"
> I'm trying to build ENBD 2.4.31 on Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.9. It 
> barfs pretty early looking for file 'Rules.make' in the kernel source. 
> Is this normal?

Well, if you don't have a Rules.make, I guess it is. How exactly are you
trying to build it? I see that enbd 2.4.31 does have some patches aimed
at 2.6 kernels, but the latest patch is for 2.6.7, not 2.6.9 (as
mutilated by RH or not).

  nbd/nbd-2.4.31% ll kernel/patches/
  total 2945
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 267922 Aug 16  2004 enbd-2.4.17.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 268630 Aug 16  2004 enbd-2.4.19.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 268656 Aug 16  2004 enbd-2.4.20.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 272079 Aug 16  2004 enbd-2.4.22.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 317792 Aug 17  2003 enbd-2.4.8.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 159054 Aug 17  2003 enbd-2.5.12.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb   2498 Oct 26  2002 enbd-2.5.31.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 196478 Aug 17  2003 enbd-2.5.64.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 159042 Aug 17  2003 enbd-2.5.7.pat
  -rw-------  1 ptb 202298 Aug 17  2003 enbd-2.5.70.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 199617 Jan 15  2004 enbd-2.6.0-test2.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 199993 Aug 16  2004 enbd-2.6.1.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 239033 Aug 16  2004 enbd-2.6.3.pat
  -rw-r--r--  1 ptb 239861 Aug 16  2004 enbd-2.6.7.pat
  nbd/nbd-2.4.31% 

I doubt that the 2.6.7 patch wuld apply.

Anyway I see that the 2.4.32 Makefile has an instruction:

   test "$(KERNELMAJOR)" = 2.6 && { echo please apply kernel patch instead; exit 0; }; 

so you would have had to apply a patch and noot build standalon.  I'd be
interested to know if one succeeded.

> I guess I'll try 2.4.32pre - are these stable enough for production use?

2.4.32 is fine.


Peter