[CentOS] Compile driver for new kernel rpm

Chadley Wilson

chadley at pinteq.co.za
Wed Jun 24 11:29:02 UTC 2009


Hi All,
My question is directed at those with kernel compiling experience.

I have a driver source xxxxx.c file and a Makefile with it.
I want to recompile the kernel to include the driver and rebuild the initrd.img.
Where do I copy the file in the kernel sources?
I currently have it in a sub folder of the drivers directory in the kernel source folder.
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?





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