Re: Building additional kernel drivers with Debian kernel-source
> * Otto Wyss wrote:
>
> With the below I see a whole bunch of problems coming to you. I know because I
> have encountered some of them with my own package ipw2100 and have been
> investigating the situation for some time now. Let's have a close look:
>
Thanks Sebastian for your fine description of the problem.
> If your package need header files from linux/driver/* (I can't tell from the
> above, but it might be) then you are screwed up as well since the
> kernel-headers package does not ship them. As I understood Christoph Hellwig
>
All I want is to build the fusion kernel driver from DirectFB
"http://www.directfb.org"; to work with the Debian kernel 2.4.26. How can
I do this the simplest and fastest way? I don't need the correct
solution as long as it works since I need this driver for testing. Any
working hack is welcomed.
> 1) Depend on kernel-headers and not kernel-source
Okay.
> 2) Fix your apckage to not use header files from driver/* (if it does).
Not possible the fusion kernel driver isn't my package.
> 3) Do not delete anything from the kernel tree (the Makefile as above)
There shouldn't be _any_ other fusion driver in the kernel tree
> 4) Advertise and contribute to getting kbuild support for 2.4
???
In the reasoning behind the kernel packages Debian seems to have
forgotten that someone want's to test a driver. Okay it might make sense
to remove linux/driver/* for the package but then there has to be a
description somewhere (where?) how this can be achieved by other means.
O. Wyss
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