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    SubjectRe: Penelope builds a kernel
    On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:59:09PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

    [snip]
    > She's just heard about a PCMCIA card that has a MEMS array of chemical
    > sensors on it. The thing could replace the bulky, balky
    > gel-chromatography setup she's using now, and make it unnecessary for
    > her to fight other students for bench time. There's even a Linux
    > driver for the card (and user-space utilities to talk to it) on one of
    > the bio sites she uses -- way too specialized an item for her distro
    > to carry, and anyway she doesn't want to wait for the next release.
    >
    > Penelope needs to build a kernel to support her exotic driver, but she
    > hasn't got more than the vaguest idea how to go about it. The
    [snip]

    Wrong. She needs to compile a new module for her kernel. What might be
    useful is some automagic tool that will find the vendor-provided kernel
    source tree and config (which is usually /boot/config-`uname -r`, but
    still findable anyhow) and then compile said module for her, toss it
    into the modules dir and maybe even add it to the always-loaded module
    list (just incase hotplug doesn't grok it).

    With some support from people writing external drivers, you could even
    have a file that lists things like which files are needed, a URL and
    version info, and store it someplace too.

    --
    Tom Rini (TR1265)
    http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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