On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:06:35 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> writes: > > Nikos is being kind to the document writers :-) > > Thanks for saving me from the Dunce cap...hehe. > > But I might yet acquire full rights to it.. > > So, is the symlink not really necessary? Doe something look at > /usr/src/linux for files?
Yes, almost every app that installs kernel drivers will go to /usr/src/linux/ looking for kernel sources > For example, if you cd 'ed into the sources top dir. And started > `make' (after the makeconfig step), would it matter if there was a > symlink or not? It doesn't matter at all. There's a Makefile in that directory and it will do whatever it's supposed to do. The symlink to it is irrelevant and is only there as a shortcut with a known name -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
