According to this (http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4389927951.html) article, you must have the linux kernel source tree, with compiled binaries (at least the vermagic.o file) in order to build an kernel module outside of the kernel tree. For obvious reasons, this is highly inconvenient. However, I've noticed that the NVIDIA kernel driver installation is able to install the nvidia.ko module without needing a precompiled source tree, and also VMWare is able to compile vmmon.o and vmnet.o (notice the use of the older .o naming scheme rather than .ko) without error (all of these successfully load into the kernel, though they taint it). Is there a guide or howto available which describes the process without requiring a compiled source tree?
