From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4L7G-0002Hc-KN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:04:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88226E099C; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9C4E09E4 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so341032ewy.14 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:04:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=w7+1OaTrOdanGv+MXMXCAhyW7hormnvYqqUoWZQD7so=; b=rEzFONsmj62vAZI9wvbLK7uZ+jzc+1KHreoY37IqY0rAIoag1usJ/qr1+XkxVf26nm GPK4PwkyrbG5dnwLWkW33WN00sh3E6WKJz0bKF+ON8eAmLki86sFdlwx1hUnn1igTDzv qw5pjncOJq3XrO32ogrdwiZ2yaU7mrdbHC854= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=gb7C+9nllCeTCzrEkOKEul687ZwPEIbJKkgC1ngvuMlHHU5yTYGMwi9wsAj4QPIT9a YeIVd2xKR00oY94IahnorGIvLqGug1Ojec9nthxAGR+ncokkVHS3RAJVLBBMFOKkOikS AMhvn5E+HB4046i1djlHVT8AZDljH/+RDszmY= Received: by 10.216.86.9 with SMTP id v9mr2176750wee.148.1257023043734; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-40-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm869826eyz.3.2009.10.31.14.04.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:04:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:03:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-zen5; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <87hbtfo68r.fsf@newsguy.com> <200910312118.22975.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <873a4zcoqc.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <873a4zcoqc.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910312303.03729.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b3355b5a-2063-4eef-a14f-f70f68d96202 X-Archives-Hash: af867c1dc78e3dd9e8a11ccae522c59a On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:06:35 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > Nikos is being kind to the document writers :-) > > Thanks for saving me from the Dunce cap...hehe. > > But I might yet acquire full rights to it.. > > So, is the symlink not really necessary? Doe something look at > /usr/src/linux for files? Yes, almost every app that installs kernel drivers will go to /usr/src/linux/ looking for kernel sources > For example, if you cd 'ed into the sources top dir. And started > `make' (after the makeconfig step), would it matter if there was a > symlink or not? It doesn't matter at all. There's a Makefile in that directory and it will do whatever it's supposed to do. The symlink to it is irrelevant and is only there as a shortcut with a known name -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com