Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:56:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:56:52 -0500 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:21255 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:56:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:05:19 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Tomas Szepe Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, lkml Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation/modules.txt Message-ID: <20030102200519.GA18655@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Tomas Szepe , sam@ravnborg.org, lkml References: <20030102192751.GA18197@mars.ravnborg.org> <20030102195409.GD17053@louise.pinerecords.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030102195409.GD17053@louise.pinerecords.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 822 Lines: 22 On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:54:09PM +0100, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > Anyway, your first step is to compile the kernel, as explained in the > > file linux/README. It generally goes like: > > > > - make config > > - make dep > > + make *config <= usually menuconfig or xconfig > > make clean > > make zImage or make zlilo > > Won't 'dep' be necessary for modversions? Based on the description on Rusty's page I do not think so. And I would really like to see that step done automatically, since it is not intuitive to do it, and the name "dep" is misleading at most. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/