Re: Distributing drivers independent of the kernel source tree

Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
26 Sep 2002 23:08:39 +0200


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On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 22:55, Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)=20
> 2. Assuming the kernel source is in /usr/src/linux is not always valid.
>=20
> 3. I currently use /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` to locate the kernel source
> which is just as broken as method #2.

you have to use

/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
(yes it's a symlink usually, but that doesn't matter)

that's what Linus decreed and that's what all distributions honor, and
that's that make install does for manual builds.

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven

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