On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 09:13:50PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 14:52 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > I am starting to think that debian has completely broken support for > > compiling out of tree kernel modules as of 2.6.29 now. > > > > It used to be, that if you needed to know if a certain function used one > > style or another, then you could do a compile test against the kernel > > headers and see if it worked or not, and try until you found the style > > that worked with the given kernel version. With the removal of the > > symlinks in 2.6.29, this is no longer possible. > [...] > > You need to use kbuild for the compile test.
Hmm. I wonder how one could do that without creating hundreds of directories and makefiles. Are there any examples of projects doing things that way yet? Can you call kbuild for a single module or actually just a single file to see if the .o would be created? -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
