On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 16:48 +0100, Ashok Sharma wrote: > In 2.6 Kernel compiling device drivers has become difficult as the > source code is required during compilation process. eh? that's not the case actually. Or rather, it's no different than 2.4, in fact better than 2.4. In 2.6 you only need a part of the source code, while in 2.4 in practice you ended up needing all of it to build reliable. I wonder if you have a bug in your makefile that exposes something like this.. (but you haven't provided an URL to it so it's hard to say) > Further compilation process gives its own errors > Are there any guidelines for porting DD from 2.4 to 2.6 this year there was an OLS presentation about this topic, it might be well worth googling for ... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
