Subject: Re: [RFC] KBUILD 2.5 issues/regressions
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com
To: Alistair J Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org, kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 19:40, Alistair J Strachan wrote:

> o The state of kbuild in shipped (distribution) kernels must be such that=
 the
>    construction of external modules can be done without having to modify =
the
>    shipped kernel-source package.

that is actually not hard; I just did this in a RH rpm like way last
week.=20
> So far, this matches the behaviour in 2.4. However, in 2.4 you need only =
do a
> "make dep" (and, I believe, some distros also touch a couple of other fil=
es).

you never ever should need to do make dep in distro trees for building
external modules.


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