On Thursday 27 January 2005 17:24, Jean-Francois Ndi wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 27 January 2005 17:01, Gaurav Dhiman wrote: > > whats the reason that we shud not use /usr/src/* > > location to compile the modules. Is the kernel source > > code in this directory not complete ? > > It can be. Don't rely on it. > > > And how does /lib/modules/* have more than one kernel > > sources in it ..... when i installed the linux 7.2 on > > my machine, it did not create different directories > > under /lib/modules/, i can not find any kernel sources > > or include files under /lib/modules/. I only have > > kernel sources installed in /usr/src/* > > The problem would be different if you were running different kernels (for > instance in 2.6, one with PREEMPT enable and the other not) That was not a good example since you are talking about sources. Still the idea remains the same. J-F > > Regards, > > J-F > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
