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Subject: Re: Distributing drivers independent of the kernel source tree
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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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.