[ALUG] Upgrading kernels - what do others do?

[MJ Ray]

cl at isbd.net wrote:
> [...] I was wondering how other people deal with them.
>   When you run the vmware upgrade to build vmware for the new kernel

I deal with that by not using vmware.

> [...]
>   Building one of my required added modules (the drivers for the
>   RTL8168 network on the MB) it creates the new module in
>   /lib/modules/2.6.18/kernel/drivers/net because it uses 'uname -r' to
>   get the kernel version.  This doesn't work very well when you
>   reboot - no network.

I'd hack its Makefile to stop it being so stupid and use a make
variable for the target kernel version.

Hope that helps,
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