kernel sources for FC3 2.6.9-1.667

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 10 17:05:52 UTC 2004



On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, David Cary Hart wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:20 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> 
> > Why do you need kernel-source? (you don't need it - if you are
> > compiling aditional drivers - madwifi/nvidia etc..)
> > 
> I keep seeing this sentiment yet, if you look at the distributed kernel,
> I cannot understand how anyone would NOT want to custom compile.

Sure get the .src.rpm if you want to custom compile the kernel.

I've seen so many 'where is the source' threads - when they should be
asking - 'do I need kernel-source for my foo-bar kernel-moudule'.

And then the thread degenerates into 'why/why-not' provide source -
instead of figuring out - if kernel-source is ACTUALLY necessary for
the OP's task in mind.

Satish




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