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From: "Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)" <Daniel.Heater@gefanuc.com>
To: "'Arjan van de Ven'" <arjanv@redhat.com>
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Subject: RE: Distributing drivers independent of the kernel source tree
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:16:03 -0400
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That's true for installing modules, but I'm wondering about getting a
standalone module compiled. I.e., what is a reliable method for locating the
include files for the kernel?

I can find references on the web where this has been discussed in the past,
but I have not found a resolution.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjanv@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:09 PM
> To: Heater, Daniel (IndSys, ""GEFanuc, VMIC)
> Cc: 'Linux Kernel Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: Distributing drivers independent of the kernel 
> source tree
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 22:55, Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC) 
> > 2. Assuming the kernel source is in /usr/src/linux is not 
> always valid.
> > 
> > 3. I currently use /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` to locate the 
> kernel source
> > which is just as broken as method #2.
> 
> you have to use
> 
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
> (yes it's a symlink usually, but that doesn't matter)
> 
> 
> that's what Linus decreed and that's what all distributions honor, and
> that's that make install does for manual builds.
> 
> Greetings,
>    Arjan van de Ven
> 
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