On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > but are all those Kconfig files strictly necessary? the > kernel-devel package represents a tree that has already been > configured, the .config file is there, etc. and it's not as if you're > going to reconfigure that tree, is it? > > so is there an actual requirement for those Kconfig files? i'm just > curious. just FYI, i chmod'ed all those Kconfig* files to 000, then built a module as a non-root user, and it seemed to work just fine. so, effectively, i'm guessing that those files are not a requirement for a module build. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
