Re: Automatic download and installation of drivers.

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

Yep, a better way to manage source code is the Linux Way!  :)

Of course, it's still tricky to answer the "is there a Linux driver
for this hardware".  More vendors should have those answers
available on their websites.

- Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Owens" <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: Automatic download and installation of drivers.


> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:58:38 +0200, 
> Tim Jansen <tim@tjansen.de> wrote:
> >2. (source driver packages only) right now the situation for drivers authors 
> >who want to distribute their drivers to end-users is really bad.
> 
> <blatant plug>
> 
> Kernel build (kbuild) 2.5 is designed to make it easy to compile add on
> code.  The user still needs the kernel source and the .config used to
> build their kernel, plus their existing kernel objects.  The add on
> source can be stored anywhere and will be compiled as if it were part
> of the kernel source tree.
> 
> kbuild 2.5 gives full support for add on code, including make *config,
> Makefile, kernel/module build, modules install, dependencies, the lot.
> See http://sourceforge.net/projects/kbuild for the patch, read
> Documentation/kbuild/kbuild-2.5.txt, in particular Shadow Trees.
> 
> </blatant plug>
> 
> Keith Owens, kbuild maintainer.
> 
> 
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