Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264250AbUDOPC5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:02:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264255AbUDOPC5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:02:57 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:65170 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264250AbUDOPC4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:02:56 -0400 Message-ID: <407EA2E5.7080504@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:57:41 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arjanv@redhat.com CC: Rusty Russell , Sam Ravnborg , Arkadiusz Miskiewicz , Andrew Morton , lkml - Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: modules in 2.6 kernel - question for FAQ? References: <200404142142.41137.arekm@pld-linux.org> <1081993968.17782.112.camel@bach> <20040415044452.GA2215@mars.ravnborg.org> <1082004860.17780.143.camel@bach> <407E9127.8070303@nortelnetworks.com> <1082037381.12255.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> In-Reply-To: <1082037381.12255.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 579 Lines: 15 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I think you misunderstood; even binary only module build stuff needs to > use the kernel makefiles, via make -C /path/to/kernel etc, as documented > in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt I know this, you know this. There are hardware vendors that still do not know this--or at least aren't doing it. Chris - 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/