From patchwork Tue Sep 15 02:26:07 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: 47568 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 n8F2QVBf028994 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:26:31 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757995AbZIOC0L (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:26:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757994AbZIOC0J (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:26:09 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com ([209.85.219.206]:52371 "EHLO mail-ew0-f206.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757992AbZIOC0J (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:26:09 -0400 Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so72646ewy.17 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:26:11 -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=LmgEPCgC10HHp9LPi7pt1oJJee0IWW4QF9G3KAsG4DyGFi8h+8LSOv6dWjnTM/jYqD emjeu/ag4FpT3ICV2uuuPeToEHuWn5Pa+YOdgxFEQugA1hIJfKE1ldLPWL7YE8UyKuGO c6GAKkUPwf4gnGx1oFwfIWXeYxnscg6GDHpKs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer; b=K5GX20FNlr8j63PcruZB5htzrfP/gyH187oK1vHpFqA4YMaeKYdOmwFVzfTYfp7uvR fSW0y4DNo+FcPXJ59et3SZs3yQ6Hmk9aLr7qdzhVLOZcb2apXqqhTY3QcJPWGx66C5RV X1fEHDcNfs6CcBNwdcpFxhfP6o3ZlR7xxwnms= Received: by 10.210.9.13 with SMTP id 13mr164947ebi.3.1252981571613; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:26:11 -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 28sm963220eyg.28.2009.09.14.19.26.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:26:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Hin-Tak Leung To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@gmail.com 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 03:26:07 +0100 Message-Id: <1252981567-12554-1-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 -----