From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Subject: Re: Problem with 0.96a Patch1 + Patch2 Date: 8 Jun 1992 20:59:08 GMT
In article <1992Jun8.120946@banner.ucsc.edu> sinster@scintilla.capitola.ca.us writes:
>In article <1992Jun7.142244.27874@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga) writes:
>>
>> What about itimer.c? I kept mine in kernel, and changed the lib/Makefile.
>
>What? What about itimer.c? There should be _two_ files called itimer.c.
>One is lib/itimer.c (this is the library interface to itimers) and the
>other is kernel/itimer.c (this actually implements the itimers).
>
>Is there something odd about the patch?
Yes, there is something odd about the patch - lib/itimer.c isn't there.
It's not really needed (it's not really kernel code at all), and the
only problem is that the lib/Makefile mentions it. I didn't really look
through the patch when I made it...
As people have noticed, there are several ways to overcome this problem
with patch2: the preferred method is just to do a "touch lib/itimer.c"
which should make everything work ok. Alternatively, you can edit the
makefile and remove "itimer.o" from the OBJS-line.
Linus
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