adding new driver to kernel src and building rpm

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:30:44 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 14:00 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>> Thanks for the answer, please see below.
> 
>> which checks that ALL *.config files in the kernel tree have empty 
>> .newoptions.
>> Of course, none do, except for the x86_64 ones.
> 
> You are required to have a specific choice for all relevant config 
> options for each arch. This driver is setup such that its available on 
> all arches, so you need to explicitly choose not to build it on other 
> arches if you don't want to. You could do that by putting:
> 
> # CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI2021 is not set
> 
> in config-generic. Then it'd get overridden for x86_64 by the =m entry 
> in config-x86_64-generic .
> 
> Maybe there's a smarter way to do all this than hand editing, I dunno, 
> but that's how I do it...
> -- 
> Adam Williamson
> Fedora QA Community Monkey
> IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
> http://www.happyassassin.net

Ah, ok, so if it's in config-generic then it makes it into the other configs,
and gets overwritten. Definitely something I haven't tried. And I don't mind 
editing by hand. Thank you!