errors compiling 2.4.14

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Tue Nov 6 21:17:52 EST 2001


Yeap, I've got loop support in the kernel since I use it often.
Greg


On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:43:54PM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote:
> Did you attempt to build support for the "loop device" in the kernel?
> This is the devices like /dev/loop0 where you can mount a disk image as if
> it were a physical disk.  Looks like they screwed up this code with
> 2.4.14.  I tell you, the Linux kernels seem especially cranky in the 2.4.X
> series.  I don't ever recall the developers completely breaking stuff with
> updates.  Anyway, I compiled the loop support as a module, and end up
> getting unresolved symbols when trying to install it.  I hope they can get
> a 2.4.X kernel out the door without messed up code.  Of course, I don't
> see how they get *any* kernels out the door anymore given their size and
> the huge number of maintainers!
> 
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