building modules

[Littlefield, Tyler]

Hello:
I did not see that. I'll take another look. Thanks for the help.
On 12/6/2010 7:57 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> Hi Tyler,
>
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 05:02:06PM -0700, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
>> Speaking of staging, I notice the newest git doesn't have makefiles for
>> compiling as a stand-alone module set. Are we all being quietly forced
>> into messing with the kernel? Any hopes of getting back the module
>> process? It seems we went from patching it into the kernel, to
>> stand-alone modules, and now we're back to the installing it into the
>> kernel again. I like both ways, but I use the modules on systems I want
>> to just get up and running fast, especially when I don't care to sit
>> down and compile a kernel.
> The modules directory in the latest git has a makefile that will build
> the modules.  Just cd into there and run make then make modules_install.
>
> One thing to be aware of is that the latest git workswith kernel 2.6.36
> or later. To be accepted into staging, one of the requirements was that
> we had to remove support for older kernels.
>
> Thanks,
>
> William
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Thanks,
Ty