Re: Copying .config to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel

From: Pavel Roskin
Date: Fri Oct 24 2003 - 13:30:51 EST


On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:50, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> \
> > It's missing on Red Hat Linux.
>
> It's not missing. For 2.4 kernels you don't need it to build external
> modules against. For the 2.6 kernel rpms
> (http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/ </shamelessplug>) the config is
> there as required

That's an interesting approach. Well, if other distribution follow the
suit and include the /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build directory with the
packages, maybe compiling standalone drivers against precompiled kernels
won't be such a challenge as it is now.

Thank you for you reply. Please disregard my patch.

--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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