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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:06:30
Message-Id: 200807240206.20794.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable? by Kevin O'Gorman
1 On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
2 > I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing.
3 >
4 > This kernel, however, looks balky to me, because it's reporting
5 > warnings and other oddities during compilation. I don't like warnings
6 > at any time, and with the kernel's make wrappers cleaning up the
7 > output they tend to stand out.
8 >
9 > Here's what I get:
10 > -- various type/attribute warnings
11
12 harmless.
13
14 > -- reports of deprecated elements
15
16 even more harmless
17
18 > -- a report of "section mismatches", and instructions to use "make
19 > CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y" to find details.
20
21 completly harmless.
22
23 All three 'problems' can be safely ignored. So do it.
24
25 >
26 > All that being said, the compilation completes, and I can boot it. I
27 > don't know the cause, but I have been unable to get vmware-server
28 > running on it, and I'm going back to the previous kernel for that
29 > reason.
30
31 complain to vmware - it's their closed source crap that doesn't work.

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Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable? Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>