DESCRIPTION: I'm trying to build an external module under 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4-smp-i686, but nothing gets compiled when I run "make" from the external module's directory. This used to work perfectly under 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-smp-i686. I don't have full sources installed for either kernel, just the SMP kernel-devel packages. WORKAROUND: Run "make modules_prepare" from /usr/src/kernels/2.6.16-1.2069_FC4-smp-i686, as documented in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt.
I failed to reproduce this on a different computer with 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5-i686. The driver in both of these tests was: http://ovcam.org/ov511/download/2.xx/distros/ov511-2.32.tar.bz
Please note that the 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 is an *FC5* kernel, not FC4. But in any case, it does not exhibit this bug. So far, only 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 (ie FC4-CURRENT) exhibits this problem. 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 does not. Unfortunately I can reproduce this reliably pn ppc and i686 using the linux-wlan-ng driver suite. It seems to be a packaging problem with the 2069_FC4 kernel. The posted workaround also appears to work.
Mark, is this still causing problems in the latest update ? If so, can you check that you have the right kernel-devel package also installed ?
I've updated to kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 and it seems to be fixed now.
"rpm --rebuild --define 'kversion 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5' --define 'kvariants ""' --target i686 http://www.flyn.org/SRPMS/linux-wlan-ng-tools-0.2.3-3.src.rpm" [the latter subject of Bug 190997 review request] exhibits the same behavior, even with the make modules_prepare workaround.
Ack. Make that: "rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'kversion 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5' --define 'kvariants ""' --target i686 http://www.flyn.org/SRPMS/linux-wlan-ng-kmod-0.2.3-3.2.6.16-1.2096_FC5.src.rpm" Also please note the url appears to have been demagicked.
[This comment added as part of a mass-update to all open FC4 kernel bugs] FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project, which will continue to release security related updates for the kernel. As this bug is not security related, it is unlikely to be fixed in an update for FC4, and has been migrated to FC5. Please retest with Fedora Core 5. Thank you.
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
(this is a mass-close to kernel bugs in NEEDINFO state) As indicated previously there has been no update on the progress of this bug therefore I am closing it as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Please re-open if the issue still occurs for you and I will try to assist in its resolution. Thank you for taking the time to report the initial bug. If you believe that this bug was closed in error, please feel free to reopen this bug.