From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:03:46 +0000 Subject: Re: Automatic download and installation of drivers. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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" To: 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 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Keith Owens, kbuild maintainer. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net > Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel