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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:57:55AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: >>Sorry, I was too terse about the problem. You're right, but typical >>distros don't ship full kernel source in their "support kernel builds" >>package. And if I use an external build directory (ie "O=") then >>the symlink just points to my external build directory, which doesn't >>include the source to drivers/, just links to include/ > > > If the external module uses a Kbuild file as explained in > Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt and then uses both O= and M= > when compiling the module there is no issue. > > With respect to moving the .h files - please do so. > drivers/infiniband should only include header used in that same > directory. Not header files potentially uased by fs/. I think Roland was talking about the case where the running kernel was built with "O=", in which case the /lib/modules.../build symlink points to the build directory rather than the original source tree. Does Kbuild handle this case properly? Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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