The Ftape Installation and Usage Guide - Compiling ftape
The option that causes the most grief for me is CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.
Note: you don't need to set/unset this option yourself if you
have a kernel source tree installed under the location given in the
LINUX_LOCATION
variable of the
[/usr/src/ftape-4.03/]MCONFIG
file.
The easiest way to avoid problems with this stuff is to configure your kernel not to use versioned symbols, recompile and install it and leave this option commented out, as it is by default. In principle the modules utilities should be able to insert modules with versioned symbols into kernels that haven't been configured for versioned symbols (or vice versa) but this need not be true for the modules utilities you try to use. Generally spoken, most versions of the modules utilities are broken in this respect. Sad :-( But true :-o
I arrived at insertion of an ftape module compiled without support
for versioned symbols into a 2.0.30 kernel which had been compiled
with support for versioned symbols using the
`modutils-2.1.34.tar.gz
' modutils package. See Requirements.
Please try to use the latest version of the modules
utilities.
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