From patchwork Tue Sep 15 02:20:56 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Hin-Tak Leung X-Patchwork-Id: 47564 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8F2L2It028383 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:21:02 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757967AbZIOCU5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:20:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757441AbZIOCU5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:20:57 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com ([209.85.219.206]:63614 "EHLO mail-ew0-f206.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757314AbZIOCU4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:20:56 -0400 Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so70368ewy.17 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:20:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:x-mailer; bh=5AZi7hnRbd4hi6xPnFKeGfIaDwhqpOWB5xtgv3vuwPo=; b=BzAsPl34efyUVMbvLHBc5voFNYGvY1uSoj9JxqJOf/jNtSw2hq8EbVaEhnTNf+KUc5 8Seg44N+3+AnKk9XuU0Ik/uNMhP3onOeku2Tdmm+lgGMVUDSDb4wQmNLDfLFOn41IPSL e2Uz7SKce1HTIx8tIU+kikZ24d2Qq4T0QMCgw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer; b=XlJkISGxIaj+74+3eNTg7TeaUrDKWJ12ff3e5mfg1GEBpIWV8NvVp52yCsEFzFyfcm An3k4vcrbF0/Vc5DSAdQfV9EfY0elnPYDZxPiTS9Vz2tYBGRKvUOwFv3Cr9VLCZC4EvD PDQrd01o1ynRKqc1ywrchiO9AzQGi+Oe4nFuA= Received: by 10.210.3.18 with SMTP id 18mr114993ebc.80.1252981259137; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (cpc3-cmbg5-0-0-cust408.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [81.101.129.153]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm744943eyz.10.2009.09.14.19.20.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:20:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Hin-Tak Leung To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@winlab.rutgers.edu Cc: Hin-Tak Leung , Hin-Tak Leung Subject: [PATCH] compat-2.6: adding notes on installing to non-running kernel Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:20:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1252981256-12371-1-git-send-email-HinTak.Leung@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.2.5 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org adding notes on installing to non-running kernel Signed-off-by: Hin-Tak Leung --- README | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 7c6c2cd..380fc5a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -142,6 +142,15 @@ compat-wireless-2.6 drivers for it you can use this syntax: make KLIB=/home/mcgrof/kernels/linux-2.6.23.9 KLIB_BUILD=/home/mcgrof/kernels/linux-2.6.23.9 +If you have a kernel installed, which is not your currently running kernel (e.g. via +distro updates; plus its corresponding kernel-dev package), you can use this syntax: + +make KLIB=/lib/modules/2.6.30.6-53.fc11.x86_64 + + and to install to your system's root path for the non-running kernel: + +make KLIB=/lib/modules/2.6.30.6-53.fc11.x86_64 KMODPATH_ARG='INSTALL_MOD_PATH=' install + Bugs -----