Building Areca arcmsr driver outside kernel source tree
From: Matt Dainty (matt_at_bodgit-n-scarper.com)
Date: 03/19/05
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To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:47:27 +0000
To get the arcmsr driver working with CentOS/RHEL 4 and using the
facility to build kernel modules outside of the kernel source tree, I
found the attached patch was necessary to remove the dependencies on the
internal drivers/scsi/scsi*.h header files and to instead use the public
ones found under include/scsi/ which are provided by the kernel-*-devel
packages.
It builds, loads and appears to work with my limited testing on an
ARC1120. I was just wanting to know if this was the right way to fix it?
Once the driver is in the main kernel tree it's largely irrelevant, but
while CentOS/RHEL 4 use the older kernel without the driver it's a PITA
to maintain kernel packages with this one driver added, when a separate
package containing just the driver is much easier.
The patch is based on the 1.20.00.06 driver that was added to
2.6.11-mm4.
Thanks
Matt
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