I am attempting to recompile a driver (8139too) with one additional entry in the pci_device_id table. I may modify it in other ways if that doesn't work.
When I try to make-kpkg kernel_image the file is not rebuilt. I tried deleting the .o; this just produces an error of a missing file during the make. There was a long thread about this earlier (dealing with a harder problem of changing the config) but I could divine no answer to the problem. Another post on Oct 7 asked a similar question without response. The thing that looked closest to a response was the suggestion to run make and then make-kpkg. Since I am applying patches, and make will not, this seems hazardous in this case. Please, there must be a way. What is it? How extensive are the changes caused by such a change? Is it sufficient just to copy over the .o file? That + depmod? Do I need to rebuild everything because offsets have changed? I don't have a good sense of how brittle the setup of the kernel, modules and support files (e.g., created by depmod) is against various changes, though I hope the kind I've made has no effects. If I install the new .deb so created over my running system, will it cause trouble? I suppose this is why the advice is just to make clean, and rebuild, which I am now doing. I'd like to find a better way. Background: My original build was with these commands $ export MODULE_LOC=/usr/local/src/kernel/modules $ export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=AUTO $ PATCHES="evms-dm-snapshot,evms-dm-bbr,debianlogo" $ date; time make-kpkg --revision rb.4 --append-to-version advncdfs --rootcmd fakeroot --added-patches $PATCHES kernel_image modules_image; date My first attempt after revising the code was $ date; time make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --added-patches $PATCHES kernel_image; date which produced the complaint The changelog says we are creating 2.4.27advncdfs, but I thought the version is 2.4.27 So I did $ date; time make-kpkg --revision rb.4 --append-to-version advncdfs --rootcmd fakeroot --added-patches $PATCHES kernel_image; date I mention this mostly because there was some suggestion that omitting either --revision or --append-to-version could confuse things, and I wonder if that is the case for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
