On 04/17/2015 04:53 PM, don fisher wrote:
Sorry if I offended.
Indeed. What "offends" me is that this and all you subsequently say is available for a little effort researching, not just the suse site but any number of background articles, heck, even at CNET!
The last time I was involved one built their own kernels by default, just to get all of the devices running.
When was that? Ver 0.98? We've had pre-built for ... What, since the beginning of the century? Loadable kernel modules since ... Well for more than a decade. See "The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide" http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/ though google shows me version of articles on LKM that going back as far as 1991.
I assumed you had done that also, until I clicked on your link and saw the prebuilt RPMs.
Right. But you're supposed to install that, and other such, as repertoires so that Yast and Zypper work properly. As it happens, kernels are pretty much stand alone; dependencies, other than macros, are not an issue. Bit its a case of just because you can load the rpm directly) doesn't mean you should. If you start doing yes-but exceptions to good practices you'll get in the habit.
I was really trying to get an update on writing device drivers. In the past building the kernel was fundamental to that,
What past are you talking about? Something before 1990? As many vendors have found, you don't need to recompile the LKM device driver for every minor revision of the kernel. For example: I just did a director diff between the 3.19.3-1 and 3.19.4-1 kernel drivers for USB storage. (As an illustration. I'll leave a more comprehensive examination of whole trees to others). For many, the only difference is in the date stamps.
I see now that a new capability may allow a simpler path.
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