Re: building 2.6.35

[Angus Hedger <demidevil@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:27:12 -0400 (EDT), Angus Hedger wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> ...
>>> $ make-kpkg --append-to-version -custom5-686 --revision 2.6.32-18 \
>>>   --initrd --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image modules_image
>>> ...
>>
>> Quick question, is there an advantage to building a modules_image .deb
>> rather than having it build into the kernel?
>
> If you copy your module directly into the source tree, then you need
> to download a new kernel source tree and unpack it due to kernel
> maintenance, you lose your modifications.  By keeping the out-of-kernel-
> source-tree modules in a separate directory, /usr/src/modules/...,
> you don't lose your modifications.  You download and unpack the
> new kernel source, rebuild both packages, and install both packages.
> Simple.
>
> P.S. Angus: sorry for the inadvertent private e-mail earlier.
> I accidentally clicked on the wrong button.
>
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Hey,

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for that!

Regards,

Angus

ps, Dont worry about it! (I keep almost doing the same thing due to
the daft way gmail handles replying to mailing lists via the web ui)