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Subject: Re: Distributing drivers independent of the kernel source tree
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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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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.

Andreas.

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