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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:48:55 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT] b43: Rewrite PHY API for N-PHY/LP-PHY  -- good on
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Holger Schurig wrote:
> Huh?  I use "make install modules_install" from my kernel source 
> dir (which I usually get via git) and that works fine, as in 
> every distro on earth.
> 
> Hehe, but I seldom use distro kernels, not even when I used Red 
> Hat or Mandrake in old times :-)

I tried that with Ubuntu 8.04 and the resulting kernel wouldn't boot. 
Only when I went through the process of making the ".deb" and 
installing that did the new kernel start properly. I didn't 
investigate it thoroughly as I was only testing one patch - I quickly 
fled back to openSUSE.

Larry