Building Custom Modules

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> A note on
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel#head-5658f6db74cec105eb1e6d5481444c2d621e8636
> indicates it isn't complete. Can someone complete it, or tell me what's
> missing enough that I can build a few F8 modules?


What's there is sufficient for personal development purposes.  It
doesn't address how to get your modules included in the upstream
kernel.org kernels, so they can be added to Fedora as well.

There are other mechanisms, such as DKMS (yum install dkms) which also
can be used for building kernel modules.  The Makefile becomes even
simpler, just the single line:

  obj-m := foo.o

and DKMS takes care of the rest.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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