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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 13:18:46 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Arjan.deVet@adv.IAEhv.nl, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2-stable and /usr/sbin/ncrcontrol: still problems
Message-ID:  <199710130318.NAA22033@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>>...
>>> However, when I tried running '/usr/sbin/ncrcontrol -i', I get 'incompatible 
>>> with kernel. Rebuild!'
>>
>>The problem is that "ncrcontrol" accesses some data structure
>>in the kernel, and whenever a kernel is built with a different
>>definition of that structure, ncrcontrol has to be rebuilt, too.
>>
>>> Is there something I'm missing here, or should this work?  I've not tried 
>>> using it before, so I have no idea if/when it ever worked here.

It shouldn't work with the GENERIC kernel in any version of 2.2 or 3.0.

>>...
>I still see the same problem, even with GENERIC kernel configurations on
>both 2.2.1-RELEASE and 2.2-STABLE from a few days ago. I patched
>ncrcontrol to print the kernel_version and ncr_version variables:

Don't use the GENERIC kernel except for installation.  It has the
FAILSAFE option (which causes this problem) and other pessimizations.

Bruce



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