Aft nix wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > 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. mark