Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751235AbWE2G5P (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 02:57:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751260AbWE2G5P (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 02:57:15 -0400 Received: from gw.openss7.com ([142.179.199.224]:18113 "EHLO gw.openss7.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751235AbWE2G5P (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 02:57:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 00:57:05 -0600 From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: 4Front Technologies , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Revell , Heiko Carstens Subject: Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? Message-ID: <20060529005705.C20649@openss7.org> Reply-To: bidulock@openss7.org Mail-Followup-To: Arjan van de Ven , 4Front Technologies , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Revell , Heiko Carstens References: <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> <447A883C.5070604@opensound.com> <1148883077.3291.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1148883077.3291.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>; from arjan@infradead.org on Mon, May 29, 2006 at 08:11:17AM +0200 Organization: http://www.openss7.org/ Dsn-Notification-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 19 Arjan, On Mon, 29 May 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > external modules shouldn't care, they really really should inherit the > cflags from the kernel's makefiles at which point.. the thing is moot. Yes, and ultimately the kernel's makefile (if present) are the best place to get CFLAGS from. However, the task of ensuring that the correct Makefile is present and that the correct configuration information is feeding it (back to .config) is distribution specific and not always straightforward. --brian - 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/