Re: Request for edit permission on HowTos/BuildingKernelModules

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On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 8:23 AM Akemi Yagi <amyagi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:22 AM Zamir SUN <sztsian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi CentOS Docs team,
> >
> > I am writing to request for updating the wiki page
> > HowTos/BuildingKernelModules[1]
> >
> > Basically, the page need some love for more recent CentOS releases -
> > in CentOS 7 if people use the in-distro /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/kmodtool
> > the following command won't work
> >
> > rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` --define 'kversion 3.10.0-862.el7'
> > testkmod.spec
> >
> > Instead, people should use something like
> >
> > rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` --define 'kernel_version
> > 3.10.0-862.el7' testkmod.spec
> >
> > In my case
> >
> > # rpmspec --define "kernel_version 3.10.0-957.el7" -P ~/testkmod.spec
> > | grep "BuildRequire"
> > warning: Macro %kmp_release defined but not used within scope
> > warning: Macro %kmp_version defined but not used within scope
> > warning: Macro %latest_kernel defined but not used within scope
> > BuildRequires: kernel-devel
> > BuildRequires: kernel-devel-x86_64 = 3.10.0-957.el7
> >
> > So I want to get this mentioned in case of confusion, either by myself
> > or some maintainer of the page.
> >
> > My wiki username is ZamirSUN. And my email address for the wiki is
> > just this one.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > [1] https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules
> >
> > --
> > Zamir SUN
> > GPG : 1D86 6D4A 49CE 4BBD 72CF FCF5 D856 6E11 F2A0 525E
>
> You should be able to edit the wiki page requested. Please let us know
> if you find any issue.
>
> Thanks for your contribution.
>

Thanks for the help.

I just added the note for CentOS 7 there. And also fixed the dead
reference link on that page.
https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules?action=diff

> Akemi
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