More on the Orinoco + XI-825 + StrongARM

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:01:22PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> > 	You are not supposed to mix kernel and modules compiled with
> > different alignement in structs. Madness would result.
> > 	Please make sure that both kernel and modules are compiled
> > with the same options so that they have the same idea about memory
> > layout.
> 
> 
> It seems to work...but I'll load the resulting kernel shortly
> to see if it continues to work...  Thanks for the warning...
> 
> I don't have to re-compile all of the user-space apps, do I?

	No, user space doesn't link directly with the kernel.

> No, not to me, because the packet printed out looked perfectly valid
> as it was handed to the rest of the kernel (netif_rx), and the built-in
> ethernet driver (for the 10bt interface) worked just fine.  Considering
> I only re-compiled the orinoco, that seems to imply that the orinoco was
> wrong in some way...but again, the bytes seemed to be correct.
> 
> Can you detect any invalid bytes in the messages I posted last night?
> 
> Any other reason you can think of that the compile option fixed
> the problem?

	You said it yourself : The only thing you did was to recompile
the driver, and after this recompile you had troubles with only this
driver. I just hope the same law of causality applies where you live.

> Thanks,
> Ben

	Jean