Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-15,: Re: FW: press release - new network driver architecture

# Re: FW: press release - new network driver architecture

Damien Miller (djm@mindrot.org)
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:20:26 +1000 (EST)

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On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, David S. Miller wrote:

> There really is not a whole lot preventing the "install" script
> on a driver cdrom from building the kernel module from source.
> It can even pop up a little "building driver module" dialogue
> with a cute little thermometer moving along as the thing builds
> itself. :-)

This is pretty much what vmware does - they ship a set of kernel
modules for the popular distributions and fall back to recompiling
from source if none of them fit.

> The one thing preventing that would be if no compiler tools at
> all are installed on the user's machine. And that would be
> the one issue preventing this scheme from working.

If the user hasn't installed a compiler then chances are they haven't
been messing with their kernel either :)

-d

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