[asterisk-users] AsteriskNow updated to Centos 5.6 and DAHDI doesn't work

[Shaun Ruffell]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 01:29:16PM -0400, me at tdiehl.org wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Shaun Ruffell wrote:
>> There is a patch for this attached on issue 18992 [1] that should work
>> regardless of which distribution may have back ported the dev_name
>> definition.  It will apply cleanly to both 2.4 and the current trunk.
>> For example, to apply it on top of 2.4.1.1:
>>
>> ]# svn co http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/dahdi/linux/tags/2.4.1.1 dahdi-linux-2.4.1.1
>> ]# cd dahdi-linux-2.4.1.1
>> ]# wget 'https://issues.asterisk.org/file_download.phpfile_id=29097&type=bug' -O - | patch -p1
>>
>> [1] https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18992
>
> Will this be added to the AsteriskNow rpms at some point or do I need to
> build my own?

I imagine this will result in a dahdi-linux 2.4.1.2 release here next week,
which will then most likely get rolled into the AsteriskNow RPMS sometime
after that.

>
> Also, does this mean that for RHEL-6 and its clones there is going to be an
> issue?

No. RHEL 6 is based on the 2.6.32 kernel and dev_name was first defined in the
mainline in 2.6.26. So this particular issue will not affect RHEL-6.

Cheers,
Shaun

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