[ATrpms-users] 3w-9xxx kernel modules RPMs missing

[Tuan Hoang]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:42:50PM -0400, Tuan Hoang wrote:
>> First off, thanks for updating the 3ware driver to 9.3.0.4.
>>
>> Secondly, all the kernel module RPM's under Fedora Core 3 seem to be 
>> missing.  Also from looking at the download server's & a mirror's 
>> directories, it looks like the RPM's are missing.
> 
> By missing you mean not updated as done for most other releases?
> That's because for 2.6 kernels it now depends on linux/mutex.h and
> therefore does not build anymore on FC3, FC2 and EL4.
> 
> If you like you can report upstream and maybe they'll fix it in
> the next release or offer some patch.

Axel,

Is there a reason why you need to use the "upstream_kernels" source 
versus the "supp_distros" source for distributions with older kernels? 
The latter seems to compile fine under FC3 and assumingly RHEL4 since it 
is very similar.

Thanks,
Tuan