On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 22:04 -0400, Alex Janssen wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> >>How would someone know they needed this new package when they had not
> >>needed it before?
> >>
> >>
> >----
> >read the release notes - see the part about adding kernel modules
> >
> >Craig
> >
> >
> >
> Craig,
> I was looking in the release notes as you suggested. I don't see any
> thing referring specifically to "adding kernel modules". I'd like to
> read what you suggest, but I'm not sure I'm finding it. Could you be
> more specific. Maybe a text fragment to search for.
----
this is what I was referring to...
Note
An exploded source tree is not required to build kernel modules against
the currently in-use kernel.
For example, to build the foo.ko module, create the following file
(named Makefile) in the directory containing the foo.c file:
obj-m := foo.o
KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
PWD := $(shell pwd)
default:
$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
Issue the make command to build the foo.ko module.
Craig
