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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a driver source xxxxx.c file and a Makefile with it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I want to recompile the kernel to include the driver and rebuild the initrd.img.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where do I copy the file in the kernel sources?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I currently have it in a sub folder of the drivers directory in the kernel source folder.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is one more question if I may, it does not have a xxxx.h (header file) do I need it? The driver does compile perfectly without it. But I am not sure if I need to compile it into the kernel?<o:p></o:p></p>
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