On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:40:59 +0200 Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > There seems to exist at least two current kernels - one is the kernel to > which /usr/src/linux points, this one is used by most (all ?) > kernel-module programs (i have 3 of them: nvidia, arpstar, loop-aes; had > also alsa-driver). When you compile/recompile any one of them they use > the kernel sources pointed by /usr/src/linux. Patch kernel sources too > (e.g. "l7-filter"). > The second kernel is your running kernel (available by "uname -r") this > one is the one actually running at any givenn time. Don't have any > examples of something using this one. Anybody here? > HTH.Rumen
What i think you mean is that there are two ways of referencing what may be the correct kernel to compile against :-). However In addition to: /usr/src/linux ; (method 1) and /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` (method 2) There are many packages out there that find the linux sources by looking for: /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build - (method 3) which is a symlink to the sources those modules were built from. Not all ebuilds use method 1 to find the kernel version. cd /usr/portage grep "uname -r" * -r reveals any number of ebuilds that refer to uname -r as a way of determining the kernel version. Also many packages use either method 2 or method 3 in their internal config script or makefile. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
