On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Aft nix <aftnix at 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. (snip) > 3) 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. Akemi