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Re: build and distribute Linux drivers as part of a GNU automake project
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: build and distribute Linux drivers as part of a GNU automake project |
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Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:40:41 -0800 |
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Vladimir Vassilev <address@hidden> writes:
> Thanks for the input. Do you think that if the application startup
> scripts take the whole responsibility of insmod-ing the drivers it would
> be possible to use a different place than
> /lib/modules/<version-of-kernel>/extra ? Then I hope doing a proper
> depmod would not be necessary. I guess the user has to provide the
> kernel sources/configuration path (Example: ./configure
> --linux-kernel-path=/usr/src/linux) so it is passed to the linux module
> build invocation.
I guess you could do that, but it scares me. I generally don't expect
running an application to install a new kernel module. But I guess that
would work around some of the integration issues.
Note that you'll still need to build a new module every time the kernel
API changes (which changes more frequently than the version).
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>