Re: ISDN and 2.2.13 no way ;(
Karsten Keil (kkeil@suse.de)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:36:39 +0200
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:28:46AM +0200, Itai Nahshon wrote:
> I'm sending this from Linux 2.2.13 and I did not recompile the utils.
> The date on /sbin/ipppd is July 8 which means it's compiled for
> 2.2.10-ac9 (give or take an "ac" number).
>
> I did need to make a minor change to ipppd/sys-linux.c. The function
> decode_version() did not return a valid kernel version when the
> EXTRAVERSION is non-empty and does not
> match "-pre*". It did not accept 2.2.13ac1 or 2.2.14pre1.
>
> The latest version will accept "pre*" (but they still have a thing
> against Alan or Andrea).
Arrgh, you are right. Now I fixed it , that only patch is set to
0, if here is any other EXTRAVERSION (patch is never used for comparing
the versions)
>
> I would recommend to anyone who uses experimental kernels, edit
> isdn4k-utils/ipppd/sys-linux.c. Find the function decode_version
> and wrap the last if statement (commented /* ignore any "-preX" part */)
> with a #if 0 .. #endif.
Or take a new version, 3.1beta6.
Karsten
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