Re: Penelope builds a kernel

[John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:39:54PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:

> Wrong.  She needs to compile a new module for her kernel.  What might be
> useful is some automagic tool that will find the vendor-provided kernel
> source tree and config (which is usually /boot/config-`uname -r`, but
> still findable anyhow)

autoconf code already exists for this, it's a non-problem. Note they must use
the config in the header file of the vendor-provided kernel source tree, not
/boot/config-`uname -r`

There are two cases:

1) the vendor source tree is installed and set up with the right config -> use header file

2) it's installed and the config has changed. -> use header file

I don't see a point in ever looking at /boot/config-`uname -r` instead of
the source tree, given that we must compile against a tree configured like the
eventual running kernel anyway.

regards
john

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