Aft nix wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Aft nix aftnix@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm developing kernel modules right now, and the build times are starting to get under my skin. As a side effect i'm taking way too many "coffee" breaks during builds.
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- Is there any way i can get the "Centos specific" patches in "plain
patch" format? That means i dont wanna do things in src-rpm way. If the patches are available in normal patch format i can keep everything tidy in my kernel git tree.
The CentOS way of "Build Your Own Kernel Modules" is described in this CentOS wiki article:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules
I suggest you try method 1 first to see if you can build your module. Once confirmed, you may want to proceed to method 3 to build a kABI-compatible module.
You can ask further questions about kmods either here, or better yet, on the ELRepo's mailing list. ELRepo ( http://elrepo.org ) builds a number of kernel modules for RHEL/CentOS/SL.
So bottom line is, i can't get the patches other than src-rpms?
That's why I mentioned yum update <package>. Yum will get the dependencies as well.
I better learn this thing, i guess.
You're on CentOS and not using yum to update the system? You very much need to learn it.
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