On 2008/01/01 22:35 (GMT-0600) Matt Domsch apparently typed: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> A note on >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel#head-5658f6db74cec105eb1e6d5481444c2d621e8636 >> indicates it isn't complete. Can someone complete it, or tell me what's >> missing enough that I can build a few F8 modules? > What's there is sufficient for personal development purposes. It > doesn't address how to get your modules included in the upstream > kernel.org kernels, so they can be added to Fedora as well. > There are other mechanisms, such as DKMS (yum install dkms) which also > can be used for building kernel modules. The Makefile becomes even > simpler, just the single line: > obj-m := foo.o > and DKMS takes care of the rest. I must be dense. There's a Makefile already in the source dir that includes the desired module name, but dkms wants a -v parameter, and man dkms gives me no idea what a module-version is in this context of a module build. :-( -- "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
