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Re: [stable] Failed Build of modules for 2.6.27.9-159

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On Tuesday 20 January 2009 21:05:15 Greg KH wrote:
> > I am über-surprised to hear that FC10 2.6.27 kernels have added
> > pci_ioremap_bar() in their kernel header include/linux/pci.h. I
> > have verified this by checking:
> > 
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/10/x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64.rpm
> > 
> > I have checked upstrea 2.6.27.9 and even 2.6.27.12 and they do not have this. This breaks
> > compatibility projects like compat-wireless :(
> 
> compatibility projects should be checking for the absense or presence of
> specific functions, not triggering off of kernel release numbers :)

Yeah, well. But it's hard to do, if you can't do it in the preprocessor.
So you can really only check for macros, not functions.

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Greetings, Michael.
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