Re: Newbie: ENBD on kernel 2.6 - kernel crash!

"Also sprach Roland Paterson-Jones:"
> >load the tainting driver.
> >  
> >
> Peter, I looked this up. Notice the kernel output line:
> 
> "May 17 11:29:24 localhost kernel: enbd: no version for "struct_module" 
> found: kernel tainted. "

Then there is something wrong, because the enbd module is GPL and says
so.

> So it looks like the 'taint'ing simply means that the ENBD module is not 
> labeled as GPL.

Then you have not compiled it, because it IS! Look in the source, Luke
:-):

  betty:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.32/kernel/linux-2.6.x/drivers/block/enbd%
  grep -4 GPL *
  enbd_base.c-
  enbd_base.c-#ifdef MODULE
  enbd_base.c-MODULE_AUTHOR ("Peter T. Breuer, Andres Marin");
  enbd_base.c-MODULE_DESCRIPTION ("Enhanced Network Block Device " ENBD_VERSION);
  enbd_base.c:MODULE_LICENSE ("GPL");
  enbd_base.c-#endif              /* MODULE */
  enbd_base.c-

and therefore it is defined. Something is wrong with your compilation.

> >Oh? Well, init oopsed. Half way through. Scatter some printk's through
> >the routine and it should become clear where.

I may add that of course this is again not normal. Init runs
fine. There is some chance that a kernel registration routine has
changed, but I doubt it. At any rate, it's easy to chase down, whatever
it is, so there's no point in thinking about it. It's more likely a
fundamental miscompilation, since the licence is missing!

Peter