From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
<kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: External kernel modules, second try
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 17:49:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040307164953.GB14967@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078677922.3615.47.camel@e136.suse.de>
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On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > From a distribution kernel pov; I already ship a subset of files for building
> > modules against (basically include/, the KConfig and makefiles), which only
> > not 100% works because I don't ship vmlinux.
>
> We have tried that with our latest round of kernels (still 2.4), and the
> results have been mixed. You need various headers outside include/ for
2.6 has the biggest offender (scsi) fixed.
> some obscure external modules. Amazingly there are even external modules
> that make use of kernel C files.
I can't imagine that being the case anymore, and for sure it won't be binary
only ones ;)
> ), the default being the running kernel. The Red Hat kernel has had a
> partial solution for merging autoconf.h.
It's a gross hack that we thankfully got rid of finally!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-07 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-07 0:44 External kernel modules, second try Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-03-07 12:53 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-03-07 13:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-07 13:46 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-03-07 14:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-07 14:26 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-03-07 15:09 ` GPL 3 mark kandianis
2004-03-07 15:14 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-07 16:43 ` John Bradford
2004-03-07 16:05 ` External kernel modules, second try Sam Ravnborg
2004-03-07 16:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-07 16:45 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-03-07 16:49 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-03-07 18:33 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-03-07 13:32 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-03-07 15:09 ` Sergey Vlasov
2004-03-07 18:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-03-07 16:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
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