On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:13:15 +0800 Zhi Li wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm maintaining a little linux distribution. Sometimes users need to > build specific drivers for their machine. But they do not want the > whole linux kernel source which I used to make my linux distribution, > for they think it eats up too much disk and network bandwith. So, my > question is whether there's a way to give them partial kernel source > to build the needed driver module. We don't support any kind of partial kernel source tree infrastructure per se. If your distro has a kernel-headers package (or kernel-devel or whatever you want to call it), you could create source packages of individual drivers and then use the external (out-of-tree) driver build methodology to build them. (see Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt) Building them should be the easy part. Deciding which ones to package for the users (or packaging hundreds of them) could be a never-ending job. Or you could look at using something like the SuSE build service: https://build.opensuse.org/ --- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
