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  From: Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@tellurian.com.au>
  To  : <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: 15 Jan 2003 15:37:11 +1030

Re: Black Magic and Kernel recompiles

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 15:34, davidn@rebel.net.au wrote:
> Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@tellurian.com.au> wrote:
> > Just to be sure, I tried an rpm -e kernel-source then removed the
> > /usr/src/linux-* directory and all files beneath it (things like .config
> > and .depend, etc). Then: [snip]
> 
> I think the problem you were having related to kernel module versions.

How so?

> My experience is that make clean doesn't always remove everything but
> make mrproper does, so backup your .config, make mrproper, restore
> your .config, make dep (which is the step you forgot) then make bzImage
> and modules.

A combination of this and 'make oldconfig' (even though it didn't prompt
me for any changes) appeared to do the trick - see my earlier post for
details.

thx,
Matt

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