Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

[Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@users.sourceforge.net>]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 02:27, 4Front Technologies wrote:
> > Our commercial OSS drivers work perfectly with Linux 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.7
> > and they are failing to install with SuSE's 2.6.5 kernel. The reason is that
> > they have gone and changed the kernel headers which mean that nothing works.
> 
> Not really. The 2.6 kernel series allow to put output files in a
> different directory than the sources -- see the O= option; there is a
> little documentation in the main Makefile. Without the O= option, the
> kernel sources and object files needed to compile external modules will
> reside in the same directory. With the O= option, they will reside in
> different directories. This means that a single /lib/modules/$(uname
> -r)/build symlink is not sufficient anymore. Therefore we have the build
> symlink pointing to the output files, and a new source symlink pointing
> to the real source tree.

Which is wrong, because existing behavior in separate source and object
directory case is that 'build' symlink points to source tree.

You BROKE it by redirecting it elsewhere.

> This change hasn't found its way into mainline yet, which is unfortunate.

I hope that your breakage never gets merged to mainline.

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