adding new driver to kernel src and building rpm

[Reindl Harald]

Am 25.01.2015 um 18:37 schrieb Amadeus W.M.:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:26:55 +0100, poma wrote:
>> On 25.01.2015 07:50, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>>> I'm trying to do the following:
>>>
>>> 1) add the smi2021 driver for EasyCap Somagic usb frame grabbers into the
>>> kernel tree
>>> 2) compile the kernel with smi2021 as a module
>>> 3) build the rpm.
>>
>> Why build the whole kernel for one module!?
>
> I would certainly build just the smi2021 driver if I knew how to, but
> I followed the only instructions I could find for Fedora:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

you do not need a Fedora specific page for everything

> How would I go about compiling just the module? The kernel source would have
> to be patched, no?

no - that's why the packages "kernel-devel" and "kernel-headers" exists 
to built modules against it - did that years ago for vmware PV drivers

https://www.google.at/#q=build+a+kernel+module

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