Re: modules in 2.6 kernel - question for FAQ?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 08:59:01 EST


On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 15:41, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > They can only do this if they're not using the kernel makefiles. So I
> > don't really think it's a priority...
>
> Unfortunately some of us have no choice but to use binary-only drivers.
>
> This is starting to change, but they are currently still needed for some
> hardware.

I think you misunderstood; even binary only module build stuff needs to
use the kernel makefiles, via make -C /path/to/kernel etc, as documented
in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt

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