Hello everybody, thank you for reading this post hoping that you bring along some very helpful ideas.

I am trying to compile and install a new kernel. I have downloaded the 2.6.37 version from kernel.org and I have extracted it in usr/src/linux-2.6.37/ folder.

I have tried to compile it and install it according to the instruction given in the following web site and which I found very useful: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/K...WTO.html#INTRO

Nevertheless, I am encountering some problems during the make install modules process as I get some warnings (i.e. The title of this post).

I thought to ignore the warnings and continue by copying the modules in /lib/modules/linux-2.6.37 but this is not possible since at that directory there is no folder created with the new kernel I am trying to install and thus I get a msg saying: FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/2.6.37/modules.dep.

The warning message: WARNING: modpost: found X section mismatch(es) suggests to run a make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y.
At the moment I am running a make again and saving the output to a file so that I can see later on what are the mismatches that I get. In any case we are talking about more than 50 mismatches so I am wondering if these mismatches are not that serious and the problem I cannot install and copy the modules is something else that I am missing as I am new to Linux.

Any help would be appreciated!

Some examples of the warning messages I get during the compilation process of the 2.6.37 kernel are:

WARNING: drivers/net/tokenring/madgemc.o(.data+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable madgemc_driver to the variable .init.data:madgemc_adapter_ids
The variable madgemc_driver references
the variable __initdata madgemc_adapter_ids
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,

WARNING: drivers/video/geode/gx1fb.o(.data+0x50): Section mismatch in reference from the variable gx1fb_driver to the function .init.text:gx1fb_probe()
The variable gx1fb_driver references
the function __init gx1fb_probe()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,

WARNING: drivers/video/geode/gx1fb.o(.data+0x50): Section mismatch in reference from the variable gx1fb_driver to the function .init.text:gx1fb_probe()
The variable gx1fb_driver references
the function __init gx1fb_probe()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,