Building drivers on EL4.0 - What happened to kernel-source?

[Rick Stevens]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
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>>As I noted in my previous post, 2.6 kernels are a bit different (not a
>>lot, but some).  I've not seen RHEL4 up close (well, I've seen
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> CentOS4)
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>>and they adhere to the FC2 and FC3 way of doing things.  That means
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> that
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>>there is no kernel-source-whatever.rpm.  You have to download and
>>install the kernel source RPM (called "kernel-version.src.rpm").  Once
>>you've installe that, then you have to do this:
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>>	cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>>	rpmbuild -bp --target=i386 kernel-2.6
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>>Once that's done, there is a full kernel source tree in
>>/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.  What I usually do to make it look
>>more familiar is to:
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>>	cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6
>>	mv linux-shortversion /usr/src/linux-longversion
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>>"shortversion" is usually something like "2.6.11" (the major release
>>number).  "longversion" would include the patch level ("2.6.11-1.27").
>> From that you can do the normal 2.6 kernel build by:
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>>	cd /usr/src/linux-longversion
>>	(edit makefile and correct the "EXTRAVERSION" bit)
>>	cp /boot/config-longverion .config
>>	make oldconfig  --OR--  make [x|menu]config
>>	make modules --OR-- make bzImage --OR-- make install
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> Thank you, that's what I needed to get on with life. Lol
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> I also added the old link of linux-2.6 to the long version name so it
> looks more like it always used to be.

Ta, DAH!  Yup, so do I.  Well, now you know the fine art of getting
2.6 kernel sources installed.  I partially quote from the Fedora Core 3
release notes (which was also present in FC2 and since RHEL4 is based
on FC2, these also seem to apply to RHEL4):

"In order to eliminate the redundancy inherent in providing a separate
package for the kernel source code when that source code already exists
in the kernel's .src.rpm file, Fedora Core 3 no longer includes the
kernel-source package. Users that require access to the kernel sources
can find them in the kernel .src.rpm file."
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