Bug#385553: linux-modules-extra-2.6: ndiswrapper requires rules target override

[Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>]

On Friday 20 June 2008 18:38:42 Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Kel Modderman wrote:
> > other than
> > it not conforming to the standard kbuild invocation as it would if it were
> > aiming for mainline Linux exclusion.
> 
> it is a (not yet written) policy that each module-source package needs
> to work like this in order get into linux-modules-*.

Thank you for the critical information.

> 
> why/what is it so difficult to add/adjust the toplevel makefile to do that?
> 

It requires far more time and skill than simply providing the make command and
variables that upstream has exposed as a long term stable interface for
building the kernel module. Additionally, the requirements for inclusion were
undocumented and not forthcoming in the initial suggestion NAK.

Therefore, there is no answer to your question at this time, as it was never
clear that one had to "add/adjust the toplevel makefile" to conform to an
integrated kbuild build enviroment, because that is a future policy. I'll leave
that to the first person who attempts to do this.

Thanks, Kel.