Re: Automatic download and installation of drivers.

[Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:07:32 -0700, 
Dmitri <dmitri@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>Of course, distributions can make the gcc (suitable for kernel
>compilations) a required (base) package.

That will be a requirement for any users who want to compile their own
or add modules onto existing kernels.

>> .config files,
>
>I think they are available in "kernel-devel" package or something
>like that. They easily can be shipped as part of the kernel RPM.
>The kernel-devel package is already available in RH, for example.

kbuild 2.5 introduces a standard method of installing .config and
System.map at the same time that the kernel and modules are installed.
The files do not have to be installed, but if they are, the default
location is /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/{.config,System.map}.  Can
you tell that I have got fed up of distributions putting .config and
System.map in strange places?

>Of course, the kernel itself can contain a copy of its own .config
>file and export it through /proc fs, along with all compiler options,
>that would be neat :-) and only requires an optional module.

Proposed many times, refused by Linus each time.  It is kernel bloat
for a user space problem that can be solved in user space.  See kbuild 2.5.

>Linus already signs his kernel releases.

No he does not.  The signatures on files obtained from ftp.kernel.org
and mirrors are automatically generated by a script on kernel.org as
files are uploaded.  The signature is by ftpadmin, not the person who
put the file there.  It says nothing about who uploaded the file, it
only proves that the file came from kernel.org and has not been
tampered with since upload.


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