Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751202AbWE2Ff5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 01:35:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751204AbWE2Ff5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 01:35:57 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([216.148.227.151]:4773 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751202AbWE2Ff5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 01:35:57 -0400 Message-ID: <447A883C.5070604@opensound.com> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 22:35:56 -0700 From: 4Front Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060404 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Arjan van de Ven , bidulock@openss7.org, Lee Revell , Heiko Carstens Subject: Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? References: <1148596163.31038.30.camel@mindpipe> <1148653797.3579.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060528130320.GA10385@osiris.ibm.com> <1148835799.3074.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1148838738.21094.65.camel@mindpipe> <1148839964.3074.52.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1148846131.27461.14.camel@mindpipe> <20060528224402.A13279@openss7.org> <1148878368.3291.40.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1148878368.3291.40.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1592 Lines: 45 BTW, why is Mandriva the only distro to turn OFF REGPARM?. Again, I think distros shouldn't be given an option to turn it off if its a good thing to have. Are there any good reasons why REGPARM is turned off?. ------------------ Yet one more reason to have something like kernel-config (similar to gtk-config or xmms-config) where you can get the package's cflags, ldflags, other info. for example kernel-config --cflags should say -DUSE_REGPARM -I/lib/modules/blah/blah kernel-config --libdir should say where the lib/modules/blah/blah kernel-config --srcdir should say where the kernel sources are installed or not installed. kernel-config --configsrc should configure the kernel source with the running kernel's configuration. kernel-config --installsrc should automatically download the RIGHT source from the net. Right now if you go on Ubuntu or Mandrake and you try to install kernel source - you get the option of stripped source, kernel-headers, kernel-2.6.blah which may not be installed. Any comments? best regards Dev Mazumdar ----------------------------------------------------------- 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F, Culver City, CA 90232, USA. Tel: (310) 202 8530 URL: www.opensound.com Fax: (310) 202 0496 Email: info@opensound.com ----------------------------------------------------------- - 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/