Hi all,

I'm probably being daft, but I'm stuck.

I need to add ieee1394 (firewire) support into my kernel. I've 
downloaded the kernel src.rpm and jumped through all the relevent hoops 
to get a source tree. I've made the changes to add ieee1394 modules to 
the build and rebuilt. I've installed the modules and the kernel and so 
on and rebooted.

It all works fine apart from the fact that openafs is now broken. So I 
downloaded the openafs src.rpm and tried to rebuild that in the usual 
way but it has kernel-devel as a dependency! kernel-devel doesn't exist 
for my custom kernel!

I guess what I really want to do is to just add the relevent ieee1394 
modules into my kernel without recompiling the lot (or the kernel 
itself). The following message gave me hope, implying that I don't need 
a full exploded source tree: 
http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0505&L=scientific-linux-users&T=0&F=&S=&P=9900
but left me confused as I can't find the ieee1394 code in the 
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-5.0.5.EL-i686 tree anywhere.

So what should I do? I'm after a solution that won't cause me loads of 
hassle everytime there's a new kernel released!

Any ideas? This kernel-devel thing has me stumped...

Cheers,
Rob

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