[lwlan-devel] Configure fix

[Pavel Roskin]

Quoting Solomon Peachy <solomon at linux-wlan.com>:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:04:44PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> So I guess a better fix would be to fix the existing code if it's
>> fixable.  But I cannot think of anything that would not be very
>> intrusive and likely to break.  Unfortunately, the build system tries to
>> extract several variables from the kernel, such as CROSS_COMPILE, so
>> changing the build system could break some existing setups that depend
>> on it.
>
> I think all that matters now are KERNEL_RELEASE and
> CROSS_COMPILE.  We use kbuild to do the actual module builds, so most of
> the stuff there is no longer necessary.

OK, I'll be back on August 26, but I'll have tons of stuff to do.   
I'll try to have another look, but please feel free to beat me at that  
:-)

The whole redirection mechanism in out-of-the-tree builds is quite  
complex, so it's not surprising that it doesn't work when the makefile  
is included from our makefile.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin