CentOS docs - Jan 2019 - Request for edit permission on HowTos/BuildingKernelModules

Hi CentOS Docs team,

I am writing to request for updating the wiki page
HowTos/BuildingKernelModules[1]

Basically, the page need some love for more recent CentOS releases -
in CentOS 7 if people use the in-distro /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/kmodtool
the following command won't work

rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` --define 'kversion 3.10.0-862.el7'
testkmod.spec

Instead, people should use something like

rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` --define 'kernel_version
3.10.0-862.el7' testkmod.spec

In my case

# rpmspec --define "kernel_version 3.10.0-957.el7" -P ~/testkmod.spec
| grep "BuildRequire"
warning: Macro %kmp_release defined but not used within scope
warning: Macro %kmp_version defined but not used within scope
warning: Macro %latest_kernel defined but not used within scope
BuildRequires: kernel-devel
BuildRequires: kernel-devel-x86_64 = 3.10.0-957.el7

So I want to get this mentioned in case of confusion, either by myself
or some maintainer of the page.

My wiki username is ZamirSUN. And my email address for the wiki is
just this one.

Thanks.
[1] https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules

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Zamir SUN
GPG : 1D86 6D4A 49CE 4BBD 72CF FCF5 D856 6E11 F2A0 525E

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:22 AM Zamir SUN <sztsian at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi CentOS Docs team,
>
> I am writing to request for updating the wiki page
> HowTos/BuildingKernelModules[1]
>
> Basically, the page need some love for more recent CentOS releases -
> in CentOS 7 if people use the in-distro /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/kmodtool
> the following command won't work
>
> rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` --define 'kversion 3.10.0-862.el7'
> testkmod.spec
>
> Instead, people should use something like
>
> rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` --define 'kernel_version
> 3.10.0-862.el7' testkmod.spec
>
> In my case
>
> # rpmspec --define "kernel_version 3.10.0-957.el7" -P
~/testkmod.spec
> | grep "BuildRequire"
> warning: Macro %kmp_release defined but not used within scope
> warning: Macro %kmp_version defined but not used within scope
> warning: Macro %latest_kernel defined but not used within scope
> BuildRequires: kernel-devel
> BuildRequires: kernel-devel-x86_64 = 3.10.0-957.el7
>
> So I want to get this mentioned in case of confusion, either by myself
> or some maintainer of the page.
>
> My wiki username is ZamirSUN. And my email address for the wiki is
> just this one.
>
> Thanks.
> [1] https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules
>
> --
> Zamir SUN
> GPG : 1D86 6D4A 49CE 4BBD 72CF FCF5 D856 6E11 F2A0 525E
You should be able to edit the wiki page requested. Please let us know
if you find any issue.

Thanks for your contribution.

Akemi

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 8:23 AM Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:22 AM Zamir SUN <sztsian at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > Hi CentOS Docs team,
> >
> > I am writing to request for updating the wiki page
> > HowTos/BuildingKernelModules[1]
> >
> > Basically, the page need some love for more recent CentOS releases -
> > in CentOS 7 if people use the in-distro /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/kmodtool
> > the following command won't work
> >
> > rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` --define 'kversion
3.10.0-862.el7'
> > testkmod.spec
> >
> > Instead, people should use something like
> >
> > rpmbuild -bb --target=`uname -m` --define 'kernel_version
> > 3.10.0-862.el7' testkmod.spec
> >
> > In my case
> >
> > # rpmspec --define "kernel_version 3.10.0-957.el7" -P
~/testkmod.spec
> > | grep "BuildRequire"
> > warning: Macro %kmp_release defined but not used within scope
> > warning: Macro %kmp_version defined but not used within scope
> > warning: Macro %latest_kernel defined but not used within scope
> > BuildRequires: kernel-devel
> > BuildRequires: kernel-devel-x86_64 = 3.10.0-957.el7
> >
> > So I want to get this mentioned in case of confusion, either by myself
> > or some maintainer of the page.
> >
> > My wiki username is ZamirSUN. And my email address for the wiki is
> > just this one.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > [1] https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules
> >
> > --
> > Zamir SUN
> > GPG : 1D86 6D4A 49CE 4BBD 72CF FCF5 D856 6E11 F2A0 525E
>
> You should be able to edit the wiki page requested. Please let us know
> if you find any issue.
>
> Thanks for your contribution.
>
Thanks for the help.

I just added the note for CentOS 7 there. And also fixed the dead
reference link on that page.
https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules?action=diff
> Akemi
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