On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:37:34PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I think you misunderstood Gilad (though you may have not, in which case > I misunderstood you) (it is also I misunderstood Gilad, so please, > anyone, answer with what you meant).
Look, it's all just one big misunderstanding. Can't we all just get along? Seriously, we'll have to wait for Gilad to tell us what he meant. > What I think Gilad meant is the distinction between modules requiring > the kernel sources, and modules requring just the kernel HEADERS. When > you are not working with kernels you compiled yourself (such as distro > kernels), not having to have a kernel compilation tree in order to > compile a module is a major plus. Until the addition of "object dir is seperate from source dir" support to kbuild in late 2.5 / early 2.6, for building external modules via kbuild you needed headers + Makefiles + some generated files, which lived in the source directory. If you need that much, why not have the source there as well and be done with it. > If that is also what you meant, then I would like to know why you think > these modules that can make do with the headers are badly written? replace 'headers' with 'headers + Makefiles + kernel build generated files' and I have no beef with them. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
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