On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 11:22, Dimitry V. Ketov wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to build any arbitrary module for redhat 8.0/9 kernels...
>
> As I see, they ship with include/linux/modules populated with *.ver files that rely on some macros defined in /boot/kernel.h and include/linux/rhconfig.h through include/linux/modversions.h that included in every module at compile time.
>
> Configuration headers include/linux/autoconf.h and include/linux/version.h source include/linux/rhconfig.h as well, so far all seems good with the tricks that speed up building, but we haven't got any dependenÑy files to build modules with the make SUBDIRS=/path/to/module/dir modules command. (Am I right?)
>
correct
> But if someone tries to build dependencies with the make dep, he lost hacked modversions.h that includes rhconfg.h (make {old,c,menu}config command will reset autoconf.h to defaults as well).
One thing is not clear from your question: are you trying to build
out-of-tree drivers or drivers inside the kernel tree ?
Out of tree drivers ought to just work; they need to provide their own
dependency info if that is really required. In tree you have to start
with a full new build unfortionatly.
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