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Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing. |
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> This kernel, however, looks balky to me, because it's reporting |
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> warnings and other oddities during compilation. I don't like warnings |
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> at any time, and with the kernel's make wrappers cleaning up the |
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> output they tend to stand out. |
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> |
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> Here's what I get: |
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> -- various type/attribute warnings |
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> -- reports of deprecated elements |
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> -- a report of "section mismatches", and instructions to use "make |
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> CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y" to find details. |
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> All that being said, the compilation completes, and I can boot it. I |
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> don't know the cause, but I have been unable to get vmware-server |
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> running on it, and I'm going back to the previous kernel for that |
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> reason. |
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I hope you're not implying that a kernel should not be declared stable |
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simply because a vmware product lags behind in kernel support? vmware 4 |
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lacks support for kernel 2.6 alltogether, maybe we should only have 2.4 |
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stable because of that. |