Re: Building Linux 2.6.16-rc1-git4

[Selso LIBERADO <selso.liberado@cioinfoindus.fr>]

Hello !

I had the same ploblem, sometimes your will able to compile your kernel 
and modules with warnings but you will be unable to load modules because 
the vermagic is wrong since the file include/linux/version.h contains a 
wrong field UTS_RELEASE, something like that :
> 2.6.10-rc3 .file null .section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits .ident 
> GCC:(GNU)3.4.3 ...
The origin of my problem and maybe yours was that mu /dev/null file was 
'altered' : it was a real file. Do the following command to be sure : 
"ls -ln /dev/null", you must have crw-rw-rw-. If the 'c' is not here you 
have a real file (do 'echo hello > /dev/null and 'cat /dev/null' and 
you'll see the msg instead nothing)

You must delete /dev/null and then re-create it :
> mknod /dev/null c 1 3 -m 666
And test it, it'll be ok
Try once more your compilation and check the version.h file.

Greetings !
Selso.