On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>
> > At home I installed Mandrake 8.1. Because I have hardware that doesnt
> > work fine out of the box I tried to build my own kernel.
> >
> > The problem is that installing the new kernel with different config
> > overwrites modules and the kernel from the distro cant load any
> > modules anymore.
> >
> > I'd suggest to add some suffix to the kernel version in the makefile to avoid this
>problem. It can be removed by people who know what they are doing anyway.
> > ie the built kernel version would be something like 2.4.8-34.1mdksrc
>
> If you do that change the version number (EXTRAVERSION) to something local
> to your site so make menuconfig will say something like 'Kernel
>
>2.4.8-34.1mic
>
> This will force make install_modules to use another subdirectory for its
> modules.
>
The EXTRAVERSION macros are located in the main Makefile of the kernel.
