I went ahead and edited the wiki.

Robert

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Robert Gifford <[email protected]> wrote:

> Antti,
>
> I was able to get through the tutorial fine without needing a separate
> buildrump. I can edit the wiki in a bit if you want, but I'm going to keep
> playing around with it for a bit, just to make sure.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Robert Gifford <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick response! I'll check it out and I'll let you know if
>> I have any other questions.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S® 5, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Antti Kantee <[email protected]>
>> Date:02/26/2015 6:18 PM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: [email protected], [email protected]
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: Kernel Development Tutorial
>>
>> On 26/02/15 21:56, Robert Gifford wrote:
>> > Good Evening
>> >
>> > I had a question concerning the Kernel Development tutorial on the
>> > rumpkernel wiki. I was curious as to why the tutorial has you download
>> both
>> > rumprun_posix and buildrump.sh as two separate directories? If
>> > rumprun_posix comes with its own buildrump.sh, why can't I just use that
>> > buildrump to edit my kernel driver source code?
>>
>> Robert,
>>
>> Good question, but my answer is better: I don't remember.
>>
>> There are 3 possible explanations:
>>
>> 1) I wasn't thinking when I wrote that tutorial.  For such a glaring
>> thing, it's unlikely I wasn't thinking *that* much (though possible).
>> 2) The way buildrump.sh *was* run from rumprun-posix was not compatible
>> with carrying out the tutorial
>> 3) The way buildrump.sh *is* run from rumprun-posix is not compatible
>> with carrying out the tutorial
>>
>> If you think that a separate buildrump.sh is not necessary -- and I'm
>> not saying you are wrong -- the best thing is to try it out.  The worst
>> that can happen is that you have to rm -rf the repo and start from
>> scratch.
>>
>> If you can complete the tutorial, you can edit the wiki page and remove
>> the separate buildrump.sh bit.  If not, you can edit the wiki and add a
>> short explanation of why you need both.  Everyone wins ;)
>>
>>    - antti
>>
>
>

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