No more kernel-source(code) ??? (was: rawhide report: 20040623 changes)

[Steve Brenneis]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 07:46, Philip Balister wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 04:06, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> 
> > I'd bet good money on needing access to kernel source to build something
> > (typically  a driver, e.g. for the NVidia and centrino drivers) or
> > switch on-off some options being a couple of orders of magnitude more
> > common than building a custom glibc.
> 
> 
> Dunno about nvidia, but you do not need to install the kernel source to
> build he centrino drivers. They build fine with
> /lib/modules/...../build. The centrino drivers are almost trivial to
> build after a kernel upgrade. 
> 
> Philip

Building the nvidia driver with the stock 2.6 kernel is a waste of time
anyway. It will not run.

-- 
Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis at surry.net>