2.6.10 no boot

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Sun Apr 6 12:12:45 EDT 2014


On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Marcello Stanisci wrote:
> > 2.6.10 is _very_ old, it proabably doesn't even work on modern hardware.
> > Why are you trying to use such an old kernel release?
> 
> to study the examples that are in your book ;-) I mean LDD3.
> I tried to build the snull driver with 2.6.39 but it doesn't compile,
> so I decided to work
> on the same version of the kernel as the book does.

2.6.39 is also really old, don't use it.

If you search around, there are updated versions of the examples online,
that work with the latest kernel releases, so I'd recommend using that.

good luck,

greg k-h



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