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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation/modules.txt
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:05:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030102200519.GA18655@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030102195409.GD17053@louise.pinerecords.com>

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:54:09PM +0100, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> >  Anyway, your first step is to compile the kernel, as explained in the
> >  file linux/README.  It generally goes like:
> >  
> > -	make config
> > -	make dep
> > +	make *config <= usually menuconfig or xconfig
> >  	make clean
> >  	make zImage or make zlilo
> 
> Won't 'dep' be necessary for modversions?
Based on the description on Rusty's page I do not think so.

And I would really like to see that step done automatically, since it
is not intuitive to do it, and the name "dep" is misleading at most.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-02 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-02 19:27 [RFC] Documentation/modules.txt Sam Ravnborg
2003-01-02 19:54 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-01-02 20:05   ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
     [not found] <fa.gg57a2v.1j56o1v@ifi.uio.no>
2003-01-04 14:15 ` junkio
2003-01-04 14:32   ` Sam Ravnborg

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