module-assistant support for zaptel

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com
Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:35:08 +0200


On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 11:37:29PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:

> > > I've played with it all day long and it seems very unsuitable for
> > > non-root builds. If it requires that the code module is compressed to a
> > > rather than kept in its own directory than it really does harm. If not,
> > > I have no problem with it and it might actually turn out useful one day.
> 
>   If you want to use it as non-root you have to pass --user-dir dir/ to
> m-a, being dir a directory you have permissions.

The troubles begin when it tries to get into the kernel source
directory. Other modules (shfs was my test) build fine because they
don't need to use the kernel source tree itself. Zaptel does. And this
is where the build (very silently, and log-less, even at the presence of
-v) fails.

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