Re: [Sheflug] SuSE 7.2 kernel source

[matt fairtlough <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Hudson wrote:

> On Sunday 14 October 2001 17:58, you wrote:
> 
> I usually use /usr/local/src/linux. /usr/src/linux shouldn't be used; but if 
> you ever want to patch your kernel with something hardcore (FreeS/Wan springs 
> to mind) you'll need to do some real work if it isn't there. I discussed this 
> with the FreeS/Wan guys about six months ago; they didn't really seem to 
> care. Although I can see their side of it too: linux sources are most likely 
> to be in /usr/src/linux. MPOV is that if someone's applying a kernel patch 
> they ought to bloody well know where the source is located, but there we are.

seems reasonable :-)


>> PS is there any way of finding out what kernel options were set in the
>> kernel I'm now running (result of installing SuSE _without_ the kernel
>> source package)?  Because it seems risky to start off (as I have done)
>> with a default set of options which don't support much of the hardware
>> I've got.
>  
> I wouldn't have thought so, although perhaps the source rpm contains a build 
> script to build it in the SuSE common method (i.e, can you build a binary 
> with rpm -ba linux.src.rpm, or however rpm does it?)

well, oddly enough I found an option in xconfig to store the options in 
the kernel, but it says nothing about how to get them out again.  I've 
enabled it and maybe will find out more later.  No doubt I shouldn't use 
xconfig :-) but I'm still a novice with a poor memory for acronyms.


> If in doubt, compile everything as a module (except for filesystems and IDE 
> device drivers :). If you're not using it, it won't get loaded: you just pay 
> for the extra compile time, which I suspect shouldn't bother you too much.

yup, did that.  But I couldn't compile support for reiserfs which I want 
to use.  Options all greyed out in xconfig.  Any ideas?

Goodness, just compiled a new kernel and wrote it to floppy in the time 
it took to write the above. You are right, extra time for compilation is 
not a big issue for me.

thanks guys,

Matt.


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