Re: [Balloon] What's the latest working kernel?

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Author: Charles Manning
Date:  
To: balloon
CC: Wookey
Subject: Re: [Balloon] What's the latest working kernel?
On Friday 06 August 2010 17:09:30 Wookey wrote:
> +++ Charles Manning [2010-08-06 16:16 +1200]:
> > I'm currently dabbling with 2.6.29 and wand something fresher. Isee there
> > is 2.6.34 in the kernel dir.
> >
> > If I just change KERNELVER in Makefile.inc will it all work?
>
> 2.6.34 is definately working, so in principle yes, but I don't
> guarantee that if you have built an older kernel first, then change
> makefile.inc and build new kernel, that everything works OK. A make clean
> or even make distclean is probably necessary to clean out 2.6.29
> files, links, quilt patches etc.


I hunch there is a missing patch.

I did this:
* rm -rf build/ dist/
* Update to latest svn. Reverted all changes etc.
* Change Makefile.inc to select 2.6.34 (the only diff to svn)
* make

After kernel fetchery & buildery

Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 326 modules
ERROR: "soc_pcmcia_debug" [drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_base.ko] undefined!
make[5]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make[4]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/build/kernel/linux-2.6.34'
make[3]: *** [../../build/kernel/modules.tgz] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/kernel'
make[2]: *** [../../build/kernel/modules.tgz] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/initrd'
make[1]: *** [initrd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/kernel'
make: *** [all] Error 1
etc, I got this:


-- Charles