Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:17:43 -0600 (CST) | From | Kai Germaschewski <> | Subject | Re: no version magic, tainting kernel. |
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:58:40PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > And then you'll die horribly next time Kai or I change the way modules > > are built. > > > > Really, using the Makefiles is always the most future-proof way! > I've actually converted my stuff to use the Makefiles, which does simplify > things, but the problem I had was mainly with the whole vermagic.c stuff and > needing a full source tree + compiled objects (or having the tree writeable > by users who want to compile modules) around just to build my module. > Anyway, Joel Becker, Christian Zander and others have eloquently voiced my > complaints previously in this thread, so I won't go over them again :) > > As far as using the kernel build system, so far so good - it's nice, and > builds things correctly though I'm having some trouble getting it to > install my module correctly, which may just indicate that I need to re-read > the docs.
The docs are kinda out-of-date, expect an update (thanks to Sam Ravnborg) soon. However, there aren't provisions for installing third party modules yet, so that's on my todo list together with the points above.
--Kai
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