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List:       gentoo-amd64
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.25
From:       David Relson <relson () osagesoftware ! com>
Date:       2008-06-24 22:25:54
Message-ID: 20080624182554.6aed8554 () osage ! osagesoftware ! com
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:27:33 +0200
Christoph Mende wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:50:51 -0400
> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> 
> > Just out of curiosity, what's taking so long with releasing the .25 
> > kernel to stable?  I don't recall any kernel before taking this
> > long to be released.
> > 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218127

FWIW, while using 2.6.25 I encountered a problem that was resolved by
switching to 2.6.24.

With a 2.6.25 kernel and linux-headers-2.6.25, vmware-server wasn't
happy.  More precisely, attempts to load vmnet.ko (for example using
'modprobe vmnet.ko') would log the following:

   vmnet: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module

in /var/log/messages.  This occurred even with rebuilds of the kernel
and the module.  Since switching to 2.6.24 (with 2.6.25's .config file
as the basis of the 2.6.24 .config file), all has been fine.

Regards,

David
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