Re: Standard for module delivery

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:14:18 +0200

On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 12:24:20PM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote:
> My problem is that I (my employer included) support Linux drivers for our
> various boards. Hell, we start there and do NT later, when development
> is stabilized. I write module-only drivers (Linux and NT) and I see no
> reason to expect the linux source tar bundle to include my driver.
>
> However, that leads me to the problem of how to properly and portably make
> binary and source rpms, not to mention makefiles.

Ted Ts'o did a paper on this for Linux Expo 99; if you have the
Proceedings it's pages 241 to 252. Unfortunately I don't see a URL on
there for an online version of the paper.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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