Re: Building Custom Modules

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On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 22:35 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > A note on
> >
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel#head-5658f6db74cec105eb1e6d5481444c2d621e8636
> > indicates it isn't complete. Can someone complete it, or tell me
> what's
> > missing enough that I can build a few F8 modules?
> 
> 
> What's there is sufficient for personal development purposes.  It
> doesn't address how to get your modules included in the upstream
> kernel.org kernels, so they can be added to Fedora as well.
> 
> There are other mechanisms, such as DKMS (yum install dkms) which also
> can be used for building kernel modules.  The Makefile becomes even
> simpler, just the single line:
> 
>   obj-m := foo.o
> 
> and DKMS takes care of the rest.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> -- 
> Matt Domsch
> Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux 
----
you neglected to mention...and author of dkms

Craig

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