No more kernel-source(code) ??? (was: rawhide report: 20040623 changes)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 25, 2004, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:

> You need it in rare cases -- if you want to build modules from the
> kernel that were not build by rh/fedora.

If you're looking for the sources of any modules, go get them from the
source rpm/tarball where they are provided.  If it's not part of the
kernel, you unpack the sources and build them.  Why should a module
that is part of the core kernel, but wasn't enabled, be any different?
You unpack the kernel sources and build whatever modules you might be
interested in.  Sure having the kernel sources already available
enables you to save this step, but you can't count on the kernel
sources being available anyway.

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