On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 22:35 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > 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. > > Thanks, > Matt > > -- > Matt Domsch > Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO > linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux ---- you neglected to mention...and author of dkms Craig
