Kernel needs a MakeMaker clone

Chip Salzenberg (chip@valinux.com)
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:36:28 -0700

According to Albert D. Cahalan:
> We ought to admit to not having solved this problem:
> 1. User has Linux installed today.
> 2. New hardware is designed, marketed, built, and sold.
> 3. User buys new hardware and installs it.
> 4. Hardware is a numb chunk of PC board, chips, and connectors.

I think what the kernel needs is something like Perl's MakeMaker --
automated, and more importantly, *STANDARDIZED* support for building
and installing a kernel module.

VMWare is distributed with source code for its kernel modules, and the
installation script compiles and installs them. It seems to work OK.
But something of that sort just needs to be standardized.

-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K


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