Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 02:07:58 +0000 | From | John Levon <> | Subject | Re: Penelope builds a kernel |
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:39:54PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> Wrong. She needs to compile a new module for her kernel. What might be > useful is some automagic tool that will find the vendor-provided kernel > source tree and config (which is usually /boot/config-`uname -r`, but > still findable anyhow)
autoconf code already exists for this, it's a non-problem. Note they must use the config in the header file of the vendor-provided kernel source tree, not /boot/config-`uname -r`
There are two cases:
1) the vendor source tree is installed and set up with the right config -> use header file
2) it's installed and the config has changed. -> use header file
I don't see a point in ever looking at /boot/config-`uname -r` instead of the source tree, given that we must compile against a tree configured like the eventual running kernel anyway.
regards john
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