Re: [PLUG] Re: Help with source after kernel update

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

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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