Re: Kernel recompile

[Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:04:39PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote:
> > From antony@antgel.co.uk Wed Jul 23 17:03:33 2003
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just recompiled my kernel to make it a little leaner, and add ACPI and
> > ALSA.  Couple of minor points, not really problems.
> > 
> > 1. I need to use the bcm5700.o module.  This isn't part of the
> > distribution, so I had to reboot the new kernel, rebuild the
> > module, and manually copy the file to /lib/modules/<new-kernel>/...  Can
> > I automate this process?  I have a feeling I can put the source
> > directory into /usr/src/modules, but I'm not sure.
> > 
> > 2. I use initrd for a RAID module to mount /.  My initrd was created by
> > the Debian installer (/boot/initrd.debinstall).  The new one that was
> > created after the make-kpkg --initrd didn't include the module.  I've
> > fudged it by editing lilo.conf to use the previous initrd.  I don't
> > think this is a problem, as I only ever need this one module loaded in
> > my initrd, but what is the way to make make-kpkg build the necessary
> > module into the new initrd?
> > 
> > Antony
> > 
> 
> Antony,
> 
> I think you need something like this:
> 
> make-kpkg --initrd --revision=3:custom.2.0 kernel_image
>  
> HTH
>           

That's pretty much what I did.  

make-kpkg --append-to-version=.20030723 --initrd kernel_image
modules_image

Only thing is that I used --append-to-version instead of revision.  Does
this make any difference to my original questions?

Antony