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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: Re: Distributing drivers independent of the kernel source tree
To: schwab@suse.de (Andreas Schwab)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:08:19 +0100 (BST)
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> 
> jbradford@dial.pipex.com writes:
> 
> |> > > 2. Assuming the kernel source is in /usr/src/linux is not always valid.
> |> > >=20
> |> > > 3. I currently use /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` to locate the kernel source
> |> > > which is just as broken as method #2.
> |> > 
> |> > you have to use
> |> > 
> |> > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
> |> > (yes it's a symlink usually, but that doesn't matter)
> |> > 
> |> > 
> |> > that's what Linus decreed and that's what all distributions honor, and
> |> > that's that make install does for manual builds.
> |> 
> |> What about instances where there is no modular support in the kernel?
> 
> If your kernel has no module support then you cannot compile kernel
> modules.

Sorry, my first post was a brain fart, I thought the original poster was talking about the correct way to identify the verison of source code that you're 'looking at'.  Appologies for the wasted bandwidth.

John.