Re: Newbie: ENBD on kernel 2.6?

Peter T. Breuer wrote:

>Hi.
>
>"Also sprach Roland Paterson-Jones:"
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>>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?
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>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).
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I was trying to ./configure then 'make'.

Looking around in 2.4.32 I found apparent source directory for 2.6 in 
kernel/linux-2.6.x, and soft link kernel/linux pointing to the 
linux-2.4.x directory. So, I linked kernel/linux to point to 
kernel/linux-2.6.x and tried again.

Then it gets further, but barfs in some header files (from nbd/ioctl.c). 
This has to do with types not defined with __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES but 
used in stuff from linux/cdrom.h (why are you including cdrom headers?). 
I hacked by defining the types myself, then it built to completion.

But now, 'insmod /tmp/enbd.ko' gets past a few messages from enbd_init 
(which claims it is 2.4._30_ !) then null pointer exception.

Now, realise that I don't really have a clue what I'm doing...

I saw that you have attempted a patch for 2.6.8 by 'dead reckoning'. Has 
anyone tried this?

Where can I find out how to apply a kernel patch and rebuild the kernel?

Regards
Roland