Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing.
>
> This kernel, however, looks balky to me, because it's reporting
> warnings and other oddities during compilation.  I don't like warnings
> at any time, and with the kernel's make wrappers cleaning up the
> output they tend to stand out.
>
> Here's what I get:
> -- various type/attribute warnings

harmless.

> -- reports of deprecated elements

even more harmless

> -- a report of "section mismatches", and instructions to use "make
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y" to find details.

completly harmless.

All three 'problems' can be safely ignored. So do it.

>
> All that being said, the compilation completes, and I can boot it.  I
> don't know the cause, but I have been unable to get vmware-server
> running on it, and I'm going back to the previous kernel for that
> reason.

complain to vmware - it's their closed source crap that doesn't work.