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Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg



On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:56:36PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> writes:

> > Various sources have recommended doing "rm -rf */pcmcia" before
> > building a kernel from sources (assuming you're goign to use
> > the pcmcia stuff in the pcmcia-cs package).  
> > 
> > If I do that, the "make" dies because it's looking for stuff in
> > those directories.
> > 
> > Am I missing a step??
> 
> You're arbitrarily nuking things from the source tree.

It's not my fault, somebody told me to!  

> Don't do that.  :-) 

That was my next guess.

> You need to enable a couple of meta-items in the kernel
> config (e.g. "support for hot-pluggable devices" and the generic
> top-level "Wireless LAN" option), but not enable specific device
> drivers (e.g. "PCMCIA/CardBus support").

Yup -- that seems to work better.

> If you don't enable the options in the kernel configuration,
> they won't get built by the kernel build, and won't conflict
> with the pcmcia-cs modules.

Cool.  Thanks.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com


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