How to create Fedora Core 1 driver disks? (rehash of previous iteraid question)

Paul Gear paul at gear.dyndns.org
Wed Mar 24 09:55:01 UTC 2004


Paul Gear wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to use Doug Ledford's driver disk package
> (http://people.redhat.com/dledford/) to create a driver disk for the ITE
> RAID driver, and i'm missing something.  I hacked the makefile to give
> me a directory for FC1, but it doesn't produce the correct result.
> 
> Some things that were not clear to me from the doco:
> 
> 1.  Should the entire kernel tree be present at 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/ in
> the directory where the kit is extracted?  It seems that something is
> required here, but my copy of the source from
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/ didn't seem to produce the correct
> result.
> 
> 2.  Should the Makefile in scsi/ just make the driver i'm interested in,
> or must it be for a full build tree with additional patches for the
> driver i'm making?
> 
> 3.  What should the contents of scsi/ be?  It seems that at least some
> of the files need to be named differently from their names on the final
> driver disk (e.g. module-info vs. modinfo, rhdd-6.1 vs. disk-info), but
> i can't work out which ones need to be named which.
> 
> 4.  Some of the files in my scsi/ directory seemed to get copied and/or
> linked into 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/.  Is this normal, or am i doing
> something else wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your replies.

Apologies for pestering, but does anyone out there have the time to
answer these few questions?

-- 
Paul
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