Re: [SLE] hptraid module building

From: Philipp Thomas (philipp.thomas_at_t-link.de)
Date: 08/30/03

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    Richard <rick47@adelphia.net> [Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:27:21 -0700]:

    >I am trying to build a module to run an HPT372N chip. The HPT site has
    >pre-built modules and kernels for SuSE 8.1 and lower, but not 8.2. They do
    >provide an open source module download.

    The heart of the driver is only provided as a binary object, so this isn't
    an open source driver, no matter what HighPoint calls it! This is a binary
    only driver just like the NVidia drivers!

    >trying to build the module for my SuSE 8.2-athlon system. It seems no matter
    >what I do the module built, when I try to insmod it to see if it will load,
    >gives an error saying it was built for -2.4.20-4GB while I am running
    >-2.4.20-athlon.

    Do As follows:

      - Install the package kernel-source.
      - cd /usr/src/linux
      - make cloneconfig
      - make dep

    After that, compile the driver again and now it should be possible to
    insert it without problems.

    Note that I'd stay away from the HighPoint driver because it doesn't offer
    anything that the normal IDE driver in combination with hptraid and the
    software RAID driver can't provide. And the latter *are* open source.

    So I'd rather try to patch the kernel (as detailed in
    http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.2/0487.html and the next
    in thread) than use HighPoints driver.

    Philipp 

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