Re: creating binary modules
>>"Adrian" == Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@iname.com> writes:
Adrian> b) the "*-modules-source" maintainers grab kernel-source-*, untar that and
Adrian> /usr/src/<their-module>" tarballs, run make-kpkg ... modules_image, and
Adrian> then upload the results.
Adrian> Points for b)
Adrian> - module maintainers have to download kernel-source (~12MB)
Just get the diffs, and you do not need the kernel-source
package.
Adrian> - module maintainers may not have easy access to box
Adrian> In both cases, there is the difficult of keeping things up-to-date -
Adrian> for b) every *-module-source maintainer has to
Adrian> watch out for new versions of kernel-image-*. [2]
Well, isn't that inherent in any synchronization scheme?
manoj
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