Re: Debian way of integrating out of tree drivers

From: Matt Zagrabelny (mzagrabe_at_d.umn.edu)
Date: 03/31/05

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:06:43 -0600

    On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 19:39 +0200, Bob Alexander wrote:
    > This morning I tried using my atheros wifi (madwifi driver) and it did
    > not work.
    >
    > I almost instantly realized that it was the first time I attemted using
    > wifi after installing my 2.6.11.4 kernel.
    >
    > I therefore jumped into the madwifi directory and did a make/make
    > install and corrected the "problem".
    >
    > Is there a way to "automatize" the adding of the madwifi drivers each
    > time I compile a new kernel ?
    >
    > This is the way I compile kernels under Debian:
    >
    > export SUBV=$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)
    > #make menuconfig
    > cat .config | gzip > /home/bob/t40.config.$SUBV.txt.gz
    > fakeroot make-kpkg clean
    > time fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=t40.$SUBV kernel_image modules_image
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    make yourself part of the group 'src' and do these steps as yourself.

    >
    > kernels live under /usr/src each in their own directory (e.g.
    > /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4) and madwifi is /usr/src/madwifi

    $ man make-kpkg

    <snip>
    --added_modules foo
    The argument should be a comma separated list of additional add-on
    modules (not in the main kernel tree) that you wish to build when you
    invoke the modules_blah targets. You may give full path names of the
    directory the modules reside in, or just the module name if it can be
    found in MODULE_LOC, which defaults to /usr/src/modules. The default
    is that all modules in MODULE_LOC, are compiled when the modules_blah
    targets are invoked.
    </snip>

    so i would say
    $ mv /usr/src/madwifi /usr/src/modules/
    ought to do it.

    -matt zagrabelny 

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