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Re: [PLUG] Re: Help with source after kernel update
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You shouldn't actually have to build the kernel, just copying in the .config
and running "make dep" should be all ya need to do. Make sure the .config
is from the currently running kernel tho.
--Barry
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:14:07PM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:42:53PM -0500, Rupert Heesom wrote:
> > The VMware msg does suggest rebuilding the kernel....does "rebuilding"
> > the kernel mean "compiling" it? - Going through the make xconfig, make
> > dep, make bzImage.
>
> Yes, exactly.
>
> If you still have your original .config file, you can just copy it into
> that directory and run 'make dep && make bzImage && make modules' and be
> done with it.
>
> I've never worked with VMWare, but the PCMCIA drivers (when they were
> distributed separately from the kernel, in 2.2) and lm_sensors, for
> example, require you to build them when you have already compiled a
> kernel, not just unpacked the source. Reason being, there are some files
> that those modules need from the kernel source tree that don't come in the
> tarball; they get created during kernel compilation. I imagine your
> VMWare stuff is like that (but of course I don't know for sure).
>
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