Re: kb25 manual [was Re: [Linux-usb-users] Re: What to do with all of the USB UHCI drivers in the kernel?]

Randy.Dunlap
2002-05-23T15:53:44Z

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:

| > BTW> one of the reasons I never bothered myself with kbuild-2.5
| > is for example that nio matter how frequently Keith
| > is advertising it - every time I go there to have a look at it
| > at sf what I find is a scatter heap of .tar.gz. The documentation
| > about how to install it makes me nervous, since I would
| > rather just expect a diff and a README how to use it, so I never
| > look after it.
|
| Duh... All you need is the core package (diff #1), the architecture
| independent modifications package (diff #2) and finally diff #3 that
| adds the arch-specific stuff. Everything's in a single list on sf.
|
| then just do s/t like
| cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-pre8 && zcat \
| ../kbuild-2.5-core-14.gz \
| ../kbuild-2.5-common-2.4.19-pre8-1.gz \
| ../kbuild-2.5-i386-2.4.19-pre8-1.gz \
| | patch -sp1
|
| and read the comprehensive manual in Documentation/kbuild/
|
| What's there to be nervous about?

so there should just be a short, simple readme about how to
install and use it -- not one that is 2400 lines long.
Other than that, I like it.

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~Randy