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  1. Bug #11372
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 11372

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:35:23 +0900
From: Horms <email address hidden>
To: Thomas Hood <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#284356: New release changed symbols thus rendering modules unloadable

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:28:50PM +0900, Horms wrote:

<snip>

> As it stands it seems whe have two choices.
>
> 1. Back out the CAN-2004-081 patch.
> This is trivial and would resolve the symbol problem.
> 2. Bump the SO name
> i.e. kernel-{build,headers,image,pcmcia-modiles}-2.4.27-1*
> -> kernel-{build,headers,image,pcmcia-modiles}-2.4.27-2*
> This is not fun, but is probably my prefered option at this point.
>
> Theroretically we might be able to do 1+2 but it looks painful at best.
> We may also be able to find a way to fix CAN-2004-081 and avoid
> introducing this symbol problem, but I am skeptical.

I have built packages that implement each of these plans.

Please take a look if you are interested.
I am still in favour of option 2.

http://debian.vergenet.net/testing/kernel-2.4.27/

--
Horms