This is just first wrap-up of some text about building external modules. There are a few unfinished chapters - but's too late today. Please let me know what you expect to see in here - which is not ...

This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series. The 2.5 development series saw extensive changes to the kernel build mechanism and the complete replacement of the module loading code.

I'm trying to compile and install a single kernel module from the 2.6 tree on Fedora development. I just want to activate the NTFS driver for my current kernel (the stock Fedora kernel). The only way ...

The current Linux source code is always available in both a complete tarball (an archive created with the tar command) and an incremental patch from the official home ...