kernel source code

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Mar 30 10:31:23 UTC 2005


not disclosed wrote:
> 
> We need it for building drivers which aren't included in the fedora 
> distros - not everything in the world is rpm based.  We also need it to 
> customize the kernels.

Did you miss the part about NOT NEEDING kernel source in order to build 
modules against that kernel?  FC2 and FC3 kernel provides headers that 
are sufficient 99% of the time, while FC4 split that out into 
kernel-devel which serves a similar purpose.

If you look at the 3rd party kernel module packages like nvidia or 
vmware, they build against these headers.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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