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Finally – 3.7 is out..

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Finally, kernel 3.7 is released…

I updated my main x86_64 system, and all seems to be OK, as expected.    The latest NVIDIA driver – 310.19 – compiles and runs OK, and VMware 9.0.1 compiles after the usual workaround for version.h:

# ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.7/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.7/include/linux/version.h
Note that this example is for the official source from kernel.org.    You will need to modify it if your source is in a different location..

If you are configuring using xconfig, you may need to re-enable some of the Multimedia options again….

$ uname -a
Linux rglinux 3.7.0 #1 SMP Tue Dec 11 17:33:30 GMT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Robert Gadsdon.  December 11th, 2012.

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Finally – 3.7 is out.. — 2 Comments

  1. “after the usual workaround for version.h”? This problem didn’t pop up on my Slackware system until after I upgraded from kernel 3.6.11 to 3.7. Should I upgrade my kernel headers?

    Thanks.
    Richard

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    • The ‘version.h’ relocation – along with various other kernel header files – only happened with kernel release 3.7… 3.6.x and earlier didn’t have the problem.. The header files should always match the version of the running kernel..

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