Building serial_cs.ko

[Dominik Brodowski]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:43:34PM -0400, Nathan M wrote:
> > > Could someone point me to a link or send me serial_cs.ko for arm linux
> > > or alternatively provide the compiler options need to build
> > > serial_cs.ko from serial_cs.c?
> > 
> > Enable it in your configuration and then run make.  You don't need to
> > make clean and rebuild from scratch with 2.6 kernels.
> 
> Are you suggesting simply enabling it in a "make menuconfig"?  I think
> i've found the magic bullet under "Character devices --> Serial
> drivers --> 8250/16550 and compatible serial support" an option that
> was not enabled. ? for this option does not specifically mention
> serial_cs, however it does make reference to serial devices and serial
> modems.  I didn't see anything under PCMCIA/Cardbus support in
> menuconfig that seemed related to serial_cs, besides serial_cs.c is in
> a serial driver folder in my linux source not a PCMCIA folder.

   <M>   8250/16550 PCMCIA device support

is the right option

> Could I just add this option, recompile the kernel on my development
> machine and copy serial_cs.ko to the ARMcore?

It _might_ work, but maybe other, dependant changes may be done to the
kernel, so you'd need to re-install it as a whole.

	Dominik