[CLUE-Tech] Kernel compiling questions

Mike Staver staver at fimble.com
Tue Aug 27 17:29:43 MDT 2002


Hmm, one last question which has me stumped so far - when it says "to be
able to select the DC395 driver", any idea where I would find this
selection?  I ofcourse looked all over the low level SCSI driver
section, under Tekram and DC395 after selecting that incomplete
code/drivers option, and I don't see it.  

Matt Gushee wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:46:27PM -0600, Dave Price wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:11:36PM -0600, Mike Staver wrote:
> > > Ok, so I finally figured out how to patch that new SCSI driver into my
> > > 2.4.19 kernel source, but I am stuck here:
> > >
> > > "note that you need to enable CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL to be able to select
> > > the DC395
> > > driver; of course you need it in the kernel"
> 
> > First choice: "Code Maturity Level Options" select:
> >
> > "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
> 
> Ah, yes ... uberhackers and READMEs often talk in terms of names like
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (because those are the actual option names found in
> the kernel config file). But the menuconfig and xconfig interfaces use
> more "user-friendly" names, so it can be a little hard to figure out
> which option is what sometimes. I have found it a helpful exercise to
> browse through the generated config file and see how it corresponds to
> the options I selected.
> 
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