From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alessandro Amici <alexamici@tiscali.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
Subject: Re: 2.5.37+ i386 arch split broke external module builds
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 22:13:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20770.1033593199@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021002210609.575031EA74@alan.localdomain>
alexamici@tiscali.it said:
> average users may have either a kernel-headers package that matches
> their running kernel and/or a souce package without the configuration
> stuff. in both cases 'the hacker way' doesn't work :)
Often nowadays they'll not have 'kernel-headers' but instead
'glibc-kernheaders' which is littered with '#ifdef __KERNEL__ #error' to
prevent people from doing that.
If you don't have the corresponding source and configuration, you cannot
build a module with any reasonable chance of success -- at least for my
definition of 'reasonable' in the context of shipping drivers to the Great
Unwashed.
> OTOH, for small device drivers you don't need the full blown kernel
> CFLAGS, you know what you need anyway.
Build for Alpha and tell me that again :)
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-02 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-02 10:39 2.5.37+ i386 arch split broke external module builds Alessandro Amici
2002-10-02 11:28 ` David Woodhouse
2002-10-02 21:06 ` Alessandro Amici
2002-10-02 21:13 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-10-02 22:09 ` James Bottomley
2002-10-02 23:49 ` Alessandro Amici
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