Which is the Real Karmic kernel source code>

[Donovan, William]

Thanks Stefan!

U Rock!

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Bader [mailto:stefan.bader at canonical.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:49 AM
To: Donovan, William
Cc: kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Which is the Real Karmic kernel source code>

Donovan, William wrote:
> Greetings,
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> 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.
> 
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> 
> 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'. 
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> I've downloaded from
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/release/source/
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> 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
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> I'd appreciate it!
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> Jay
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> 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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