Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Current compat-wireless build system has some inconveniences for distribution packaging: >> >> >> - In Makefile, KLIB is set to /lib/modules/$(uname -r) which avoids compiling the stack >> against a non-running kernel. In several other external kernel drivers this can be bypassed >> by giving KERNELRELEASE=something to "make" but it's not working for compat-wireless. > > Did you not read README (or the instruction in the README not working > any more)? > > compat-wireless can be used with a non-running kernel, and the > instruction is in the top-level README. (I contributed part of it, the > part on the non-running kernel which has just been distro-installed, > e.g. to build and install compat-wireless during a routine upgrade > which installs a new kernel but before a reboot to it). Hi, actually yes I've read it many times to not miss anything about packaging but I didn't see that part. The instructions are still correct and building against a non-running kernel and installing to a different directory works without problem. sorry for the inconvenience, thanks! Ozan Caglayan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
