Re: build and distribute Linux drivers as part of a GNU automake project

2006-11-05 Thread Vladimir Vassilev
Hello Simon, There are a few projects that do this; however none of them uses automake to build the makefiles for the kernel objects; rather, they have a Makefile.in that is not autogenerated, accepts the substitutions for the install paths etc. and calls the kernel Makefile with appropriate

Re: build and distribute Linux drivers as part of a GNU automake project

2006-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Vladimir Vassilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you point me to similar open source projects. I am mostly curious what solution they chose for distributing the driver binaries after they have been built. In the case of userspace programs and libraries the autotools primitives (PROGRAMS,

Re: build and distribute Linux drivers as part of a GNU automake project

2006-11-05 Thread Vladimir Vassilev
Hello Russ, Thanks for the input. Do you think that if the application startup scripts take the whole responsibility of insmod-ing the drivers it would be possible to use a different place than /lib/modules/version-of-kernel/extra ? Then I hope doing a proper depmod would not be necessary. I

Re: build and distribute Linux drivers as part of a GNU automake project

2006-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Vladimir Vassilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the input. Do you think that if the application startup scripts take the whole responsibility of insmod-ing the drivers it would be possible to use a different place than /lib/modules/version-of-kernel/extra ? Then I hope doing a proper

Re: build and distribute Linux drivers as part of a GNU automake project

2006-10-31 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Vladimir Vassilev schrieb: If there are projects which address the same issue, please send some pointers. There are a few projects that do this; however none of them uses automake to build the makefiles for the kernel objects; rather, they have a Makefile.in that is not autogenerated,

build and distribute Linux drivers as part of a GNU automake project

2006-10-30 Thread Vladimir Vassilev
Hello, I am working on a complex project which involves both userspace applications, libraries and Linux kernel drivers. What is the recommended approach to build and distribute Linux drivers as part of a GNU automake distribution. We hope there is an elegant way to generate the Makefile