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From: Alistair J Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] KBUILD 2.5 issues/regressions
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:06:33 +0100
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On Friday 11 July 2003 19:01, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:56:53PM +0100, Alistair J Strachan wrote:
> > On Friday 11 July 2003 18:47, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I cannot see how you can make modversions modules without first building
> > vmlinux. This "RPM" presumably does not ship with vmlinux constructed
>
> It does actually.

Ah. In that case, I suppose it's all moot and won't end up being an issue. It 
just strikes me that vmlinux would not have to be included in a distro 2.4 
kernel, because it is not a "dependency" of the build system. If this is how 
distros will operate, then just forget about it.

>
> > Try it with the NVIDIA driver
>
> no think you I prefer not to touch that with a 10 foot pole

Interesting snip of my original sentence.

Cheers,
Alistair.
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