Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 May 2002 08:51:40 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: kb25 manual [was Re: [Linux-usb-users] Re: What to do with all of the USB UHCI drivers in the kernel?] |
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On Thu, 23 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
| > BTW> one of the reasons I never bothered myself with kbuild-2.5 | > is for example that nio matter how frequently Keith | > is advertising it - every time I go there to have a look at it | > at sf what I find is a scatter heap of .tar.gz. The documentation | > about how to install it makes me nervous, since I would | > rather just expect a diff and a README how to use it, so I never | > look after it. | | Duh... All you need is the core package (diff #1), the architecture | independent modifications package (diff #2) and finally diff #3 that | adds the arch-specific stuff. Everything's in a single list on sf. | | then just do s/t like | cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-pre8 && zcat \ | ../kbuild-2.5-core-14.gz \ | ../kbuild-2.5-common-2.4.19-pre8-1.gz \ | ../kbuild-2.5-i386-2.4.19-pre8-1.gz \ | | patch -sp1 | | and read the comprehensive manual in Documentation/kbuild/ | | What's there to be nervous about?
so there should just be a short, simple readme about how to install and use it -- not one that is 2400 lines long. Other than that, I like it.
-- ~Randy
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