Hi, [ Please Jump to 2. if you are not interested in Xen part. ] (1) I tried adding my code to Xen 3.1 under linux-2.6.18-sparse. But I noticed there are not kconfigs and Makefiles at a lot of places. I am puzzled how Xen build system will include my code [ if it does ]. As an experiment i tried generating the xen guest kernel source i.e linux-2.6.18-xen. I then added my code under net/foo/* Added *.h files to include/net/foo/ Modified Makefile in net to consider files in net/foo/* Added a new submenu option to Kconfig in net/ directory, which calls Kconfig in /net/foo/ . I wrote a Makefile for net/foo/ and created two .o object files from the .c files in foo/ dir. This Looked to me a normal thing to do when i am stuck. I did $make linux-2.6-xen-config CONFIGMODE="menuconfig" and chose the new entry under NET->TESTING->FOO doing a $make linux-2.6-xen-build -j3 CC="ccache gcc" [-j and CC has no effect on anything except speed]. i get error that -xen tree is dirty[tried running a touch on whole linux-2.6.18-xen tree but no luck :(] and i need to run make mrproper. This is exactly what i do not want to do now. My question is does anyone know how to sort out this problem? This extra pedantic behaviour from the Xen-3.1 build system is new to me. Did anyone face such problem ever? (2) BTW even doing same with a standard kernel fscks up the linker script somehow :-/.What do i need to do to shut the linker up and build the kernel like it earlier did? Any pointers of suggestion will be thankful. TIA --psr -- play the game -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
