Richard Hughes wrote :
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 13:36 -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
I've used DKMS for ecryptfs, unionfs, qvm86, and a few other drivers, and it is no hassle at all. Recent versions even have mkrpm and mkkmp (Kernel Module Package) commands.
It's also been working great for me [for years] for ov518 webcam support. You have no idea how nice it is to compile some wacky -mm kernel, fire it up, and have all your hardware working without having to manually do this yourself.
I'd be interested in doing the same for the acx100 module, or preferably the cleaned up and softmac based tiacx module from here :
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/
But the files, especially the included Makefile, are meant for the module to be built at the same time as the kernel. The usual "make -C /lib/modules.../build -M `pwd`" doesn't work, and I'm really not familiar enough with makefiles, nor with the special makefile kernel magic to understand how to adapt this :
acx-common-y := wlan.o ioctl.o common.o acx-usb-y := usb.o acx-pci-y := pci.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ACX_PCI) += acx-common.o acx-pci.o obj-$(CONFIG_ACX_USB) += acx-common.o acx-usb.o
If anyone knows what needs to be changed to get both modules built, please let me know. Too bad this modules hasn't made it into 2.6.18 :-(
Matthias