Which is the Real Karmic kernel source code>

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Dec 22 14:12:27 UTC 2009


Stefan Bader wrote:
> Donovan, William wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I'm having a terrible time trying to make a tiny change in a device
>> driver (ftdi_sio) because I can't find the source code for Ubuntu 9.10.
>> I hope you can steer me to it with little trouble.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I don't find packages in the form of linux-ubuntu-modules-$(uname -r)
>> and can only find 2 candidates -  linux-source-2.6.31 which synaptic's
>> package manager says has the latest version of 2.6.31-14.48,  and
>> linux-ec2-soucre-2.6.31 (latest version of 2.6.31-302.7), but when I
>> build them and attempt to insmod ftdi_sio.ko, I get an error 'unknown
>> symbol'. 
>>
>>  
>>
>> I've downloaded from
>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/release/source/
>>
>>  
>>
>> Linux-source-2.6.31.tar and applied the patch linux-2.6.31-14.48.diff.gz
>> but get the same 'unknown symbol' error.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Could someone be kind and give me a hint where the official Ubuntu
>> repository for Karmic might be?
>>
>>  
> 
> Hi William,
> 
> either use git and clone from git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-karmic.git
> or say "apt-get source linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic" to get the package source.
> 
> -Stefan
>> I'd appreciate it!
>>
>>  
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>  
>>
>> Jay Donovan  |  Sr. Software Engineer  |  PolyVision | 3970 John's Creek
>> Court, Ste. 325
>>
>> Suwanee, GA  30024 |  o: 678.542.3110 | fax: 678.542.3210 |
>> wdonovan at polyvision.com
>>
>>  
>>
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>>
> 
> 

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