Re: Trouble with upgrade Ultrix 3.1 for Vax 6310

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From: George Robbins
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 1990 03:42

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In article <2010@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila) writes:
> 
>   
>   We have a Vax 6310, running Ultrix 3.0, we tried to upgrade it to Ultrix
> 3.1, but we have trouble making the new kernel, the report is this :
> 
>   kmem_alloc(devname, char *, MAXPATHLEN, KM_TEMP);   syntax error
> 
>   KM_TEMP  undefined variable
> 

If this is in custom driver source, you may have gotten bitten by changes
in in the kernel memory allocation stuff.  I think all Ultrix calls are
supposed by via the KM_ALLOC macro.

If it's something else, you might want to check if you successfully updgraded
or were left with a mix of old and new pieces.

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,     uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing:   domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
Commodore, Engineering Department     phone:  215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)

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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
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Subject: Re: Trouble with upgrade Ultrix 3.1 for Vax 6310
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