On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > From a distribution kernel pov; I already ship a subset of files for building > > modules against (basically include/, the KConfig and makefiles), which only > > not 100% works because I don't ship vmlinux. > > We have tried that with our latest round of kernels (still 2.4), and the > results have been mixed. You need various headers outside include/ for
2.6 has the biggest offender (scsi) fixed. > some obscure external modules. Amazingly there are even external modules > that make use of kernel C files. I can't imagine that being the case anymore, and for sure it won't be binary only ones ;) > ), the default being the running kernel. The Red Hat kernel has had a > partial solution for merging autoconf.h. It's a gross hack that we thankfully got rid of finally!
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