Re: build and distribute Linux drivers as part of a GNU automake project

[Russ Allbery]

Vladimir Vassilev <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for the input. Do you think that if the application startup
> scripts take the whole responsibility of insmod-ing the drivers it would
> be possible to use a different place than
> /lib/modules/<version-of-kernel>/extra ? Then I hope doing a proper
> depmod would not be necessary. I guess the user has to provide the
> kernel sources/configuration path (Example: ./configure
> --linux-kernel-path=/usr/src/linux) so it is passed to the linux module
> build invocation.

I guess you could do that, but it scares me.  I generally don't expect
running an application to install a new kernel module.  But I guess that
would work around some of the integration issues.

Note that you'll still need to build a new module every time the kernel
API changes (which changes more frequently than the version).

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>