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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: "Heater, Daniel (IndSys, " "GEFanuc,
	VMIC)"  <Daniel.Heater@gefanuc.com>,
	"'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Distributing drivers independent of the kernel source tree
Date: 26 Sep 2002 22:41:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033076462.1269.196.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033074519.2698.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 22:08, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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.

One additional item that may be useful, for Red Hat at least there is a
little kit to build additional driver disks.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-26 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-26 20:55 Distributing drivers independent of the kernel source tree Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
2002-09-26 21:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-09-26 21:41   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-09-26 21:48     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-26 22:03   ` J.A. Magallon
2002-09-27 12:40   ` jbradford
2002-09-27 12:48     ` Andreas Schwab
2002-09-27 13:08       ` jbradford
2002-09-30 21:35 ` Anders Gustafsson
2002-09-26 21:16 Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
2002-09-27  7:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-09-26 21:55 Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)

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