[ALUG] Re: Upgrading kernels - what do others do?

[cl at isbd.net]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:59:33PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> 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.
> 
So what do you use instead?  (I have an occasional need to run an
Access database, among other things)

> > [...]
> >   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.
> 
Yes, that's possible, I just wondered if there was a 'right' way to do
it.  Presumably in a while the RTL5168 will be supported by the
standard kernel and I won't need the custom add-on.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)