Re: comedi-0.7.68

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On Monday 23 February 2004 07:24 pm, David Schleef wrote:
>
> Thanks mostly to Bernd Porr, this release has much improved
> Linux-2.6 support.  Since increasing numbers of people are now
> using 2.6, it seems wise to get this out.
>

Do you have an opinion regarding moving the module compilation to kbuild?  
That is, doing a make in the kernel directory with SUBDIRS overridden (and 
CC modified to include our compat headers first).  I've done it for the 
linux-gpib kernel modules without problems.  It would probably mean 
abandoning 2.2 and earlier kernel support though.  

The current build system still has a couple issues I'm aware of.  We don't 
define KBUILD_BASENAME (not sure what problems it might cause, but 
KBUILD_BASENAME is used in various asm kernel headers).  Also, the 
vermagic.o file isn't linked into comedi modules, which causes them to 
taint the 2.6 kernel (I believe vermagic.o is supposed to prevent people 
from compiling the kernel and the modules with different versions of gcc).

- -- 
Frank

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Received on 2004-02-24Z01:40:40