On Feb 7, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Chuck Remes wrote: > Like the subject says, I need a hand building the latest aoe block driver > (available here [1]). The built-in aoe driver is back at version 47... there > have been *many* improvements, particularly for performance, that I need in > the later driver releases. > > I had great success building the driver against kernel26 for the past 3 > years. This is my first try with the 3.x kernel series. > > In the gist below, I attached 3 sets of detail. The 'install_readme.txt' is a > set of instructions I wrote up on how to prepare the kernel sources so that > the driver could be built against it. These are the instructions (slightly > updated to use the 'linux' package name versus the old 'kernel26' package) > that I have successfully used for the last several years to keep the driver > up to date as new kernels rolled out. > > The 'stdout.txt' section of the gist contains the output of my terminal > session from when I do the driver build. It throws some errors out and points > to a few lines in a specific file (aoeblk.c) as being incorrect. I have > compared that code to other drivers and it looks correct to me. > > Lastly, I included a copy of the aoeblk.c file that contains these supposed > errors (to save any helpful soul who wants to see the source without > downloading the tarball [1] linked to earlier). > > https://gist.github.com/1713964 > > > I also took another approach where I copied the updated driver sources > directly into the kernel source tree and rebuilt the package. However, it > throws the same error. > > I cannot get support from the vendor (Coraid) because they only officially > support the 2.6 kernel series even with a paid plan. > > I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Any suggestions? > > > [1] http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/aoe6-78.tar.gz
I needed to add another include to aoeblk.c (and another C file when I got a similar error). #include <linux/module.h> Apparently that is a new requirement as of the 3.x kernel series? Anyway, looks like it is compiling correctly now. Hopefully it works after I install it! :) cr
