Building external kernel modules with kernel 2.6...

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote:

> According to this
> (http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4389927951.html) article, you
> must have the linux kernel source tree, with compiled binaries (at
> least the vermagic.o file) in order to build an kernel module
> outside of the kernel tree.

i'm pretty sure that's not true.  if you read the FC3 release notes,
partway down, the section on "kernel", you'll see how to set up a
makefile to compile a loadable module.  you don't need the source
tree.  what you *do* need is the appropriate /lib/modules directory.

rday