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Is there a preprocessor flag to check what is the current patch number applied on Montavista kernel ?

The standard Linux kernel has this pre-processor flag LINUX_VERSION_CODE which can be used to detect which version of code is being compiled for example #if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < more...

Recreating kernel build enviroment for external modules in non kernel source directory

I want to create a seperate "build" directory which contains just enough to build kernel modules So after doing a make defconfig prepare on original kernel source tree I copy all subdirectories containing more...

problem when applying kernel patches from script

Chris I think I got it. It is because of the ls alias $ alias ls alias ls='ls --color' So what is happening is that the control characters output by ls --color is causing bash to report a non existent more...

problem when applying kernel patches from script

I was trying to apply mvista kernel patches in a script as follows for i in `ls /tmp/patch/*.mvlpatch`; do echo "+++applying $i"; $i; done and for each patch it gave me a bash: more...

Building kernel headers only

Also is there a way to output all the headers to a separate directory instead on in the kernel source tree itself ???

Building kernel headers only

oldconfig ???? Cant I just do make defconfig && make prepare

Building kernel headers only

Is there a target which allows only the kernel headers to get built so that external modules can be built against the kernel. ? Right now what I have to do is make clean mrproper make defconfig make more...

"/" mount point on embedded systems

Hmm you're right. I used the proper df and it does show the "/". We will probably include that in the platform image. Thanks for the help

"/" mount point on embedded systems

BTW we are running busybox. That df does not support -a. -bash-2.05b# df --help BusyBox v1.6.0 (2008-08-20 05:05:38 PDT) multi-call binary Usage: df [-hmk] [FILESYSTEM ...] Print the filesystem space more...

"/" mount point on embedded systems

This is what my /proc/mounts shows rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext2 rw,nogrpid 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /var tmpfs rw 0 0 and more...