Re: So just how are out of tree kernel modules supposed to work now?
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 09:13:50PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 14:52 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > I am starting to think that debian has completely broken support for
> > compiling out of tree kernel modules as of 2.6.29 now.
> >
> > It used to be, that if you needed to know if a certain function used one
> > style or another, then you could do a compile test against the kernel
> > headers and see if it worked or not, and try until you found the style
> > that worked with the given kernel version. With the removal of the
> > symlinks in 2.6.29, this is no longer possible.
> [...]
>
> You need to use kbuild for the compile test.
Hmm. I wonder how one could do that without creating hundreds of
directories and makefiles. Are there any examples of projects doing
things that way yet? Can you call kbuild for a single module or actually
just a single file to see if the .o would be created?
--
Len Sorensen
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