> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > This was driving me nuts. It appeared with pre1, and I reversed just
> > about the entire patch piece by piece until just about the only thing
> > left was drivers and the makefile version changes. You guessed it..
> > the makefile changes. I haven't figured out why yet, but I now have a
> > pre1 with everything except that, and the annoying route and demand dial
> > problems are gone. 'Course it has an identity crisis, (it thinks it's
> > 2.1.132) but it works.
>
> As suggested I have renamed the pre4 kernel into 2.1.136, and the problem
> disappeared!
>
> The bug seems to be in ipppd/sys-linux.c. Decode_version() stumbles
> over the '-pre4'. Attached is is a suggested workaround for
> ipppd 3.0beta2. But probably it is more easy to remove the definition
> of 'EXTRAVERSION' in the top level Makefile, delete
> include/linux/version.h and rebuild the kernel. I guess EXTRAVESRION
> will disappear with the final 2.2.0 kernel anyway.
Yeah, figured out why a little later. My forehead is a little tender
from banging it on the desk afterward :)
-Mike
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