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Help building a new kernel...



IMHO, there should be a tweak which save kernel ID identifiers (like
EXTRAVERSION) in the files output by `xconfig` (under the save config to
file option)...

That way, if you'd want to continue working on the firewall kernel (which
doesn't have module support), I could LoadConfig and not have to worry about
the version-ID messing up my normal kernel/modules when I make bzlilo and
modules_install.

Is there a solution to this problem, or is it better to just have separate
source trees?

>    In the top level Makefile there are:
> 
> VERSION = 2
> PATCHLEVEL = 2
> SUBLEVEL = 12
> EXTRAVERSION =
> 
>    What I've done in the past for my dual processor, is to build with EXTRAVE
> RSION
> set to nsmp or smp. Depending
> on my mood. This will create a directory in the /lib/modules containing the
> EXTRAVERSION text. I believe that
> uname -r will also respond properly.  This way you should be able to make mul
> tiple
> kernels with the same source
> tree differing only in configuration. Remember to change your EXTRAVERSION.
> 



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