Kernel compiled without modules

Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:34:27 +0100


On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:24:35PM +0100, Krzysztof Mazurczyk wrote:
> Hi Harald,
> 
> > The message is just assuming that you have modules :) Just don't look at it.
> > Pleae rebuild your iptables-1.2.5, it needs to be compiled against the
> > headers of your running kernel.
> 
> Ok, my fault. I've had two 2.4.17 kernel trees patched differently. Never mind
> if kernel is configured with or without modules. Simply, there is a need to 
> have as many compile-version iptables as many patched kernel trees even if
> these trees have the same version of kernel.

This is not always true, it depends on which patches you use.

But as a general rule of thumb, it will always work if you do it that way.

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