[Madwifi-cvs] revision 1296 committed by proski

[proski <svn...@ma...>]

Project     : madwifi
Revision    : 1296
Author      : proski
Date        : 2005-11-05 07:05:56 +0100 (Sat, 05 Nov 2005)

Log Message :
Better comments about KERNELPATH and what it defaults to.

Affected Files:
* trunk/Makefile.inc                                  updated             


Modified: trunk/Makefile.inc
===================================================================
--- trunk/Makefile.inc	2005-11-05 00:06:08 UTC (rev 1295)
+++ trunk/Makefile.inc	2005-11-05 06:05:56 UTC (rev 1296)
@@ -69,10 +69,11 @@
 # DESTDIR is used as path prefix during installation.
 DESTDIR ?=
 
-# KERNELPATH is the path to the target kernel's build/source area.
-# This is used to obtain the kernel configuration and include files.
-# If automatic determination doesn't work as desired, you have to
-# manually set it, for example with:
+# KERNELPATH is the path to the Linux kernel build tree.  Unless a
+# separate build directory was used for the kernel build, it's the same
+# as the kernel source tree.  KERNELPATH is used to access the kernel
+# configuration, include files and the build system.  To build for
+# another kernel, set KERNELPATH manually, for example with:
 # make KERNELPATH=/path/to/kernel/source
 
 # TOOLPATH is the path which contains the crosscompile toolchain (?)
@@ -91,6 +92,9 @@
 
 else
 
+# The default KERNELPATH points to the directory where the currently
+# running kernel was compiled.  Note that the configuration and the
+# version of the kernel tree might have changed since then.
 KERNELPATH ?= $(shell readlink -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build)
 
 ifeq ($(KERNELPATH),)