Re: [RFC] Documentation/modules.txt

From: Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 15:05:19 EST


On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:54:09PM +0100, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > Anyway, your first step is to compile the kernel, as explained in the
> > file linux/README. It generally goes like:
> >
> > - make config
> > - make dep
> > + make *config <= usually menuconfig or xconfig
> > make clean
> > make zImage or make zlilo
>
> Won't 'dep' be necessary for modversions?
Based on the description on Rusty's page I do not think so.

And I would really like to see that step done automatically, since it
is not intuitive to do it, and the name "dep" is misleading at most.

        Sam
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