dumb question: tracking kernel back to sources that built it.

[Dane Mutters]

I don't know a whole lot about Ubuntu kernels specifically, but I have 
compiled my fair share of other kernels.  It sounds to me like you only have 
the vanilla sources, instead of the Ubuntu sources.  Did you get the sources 
from the apt repository, or from kernel.org?  If you got them from kernel.org 
(and maybe even if you got them from apt), you probably need to get the 
Ubuntu patches.  I'm not sure where to find those, but here is a link you 
might want to try:

http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/dapper/admin/

Also, perhaps the sources already come with the patches, but they aren't 
applied yet?  Look around in the source tree for them.

Good luck.

--Dane

On Friday 16 June 2006 21:02, marty fouts wrote:
> I'm set in my ways. One of the things I like to be able to do before I
> start whacking away at a kernel is be able to build the installed
> kernel from sources. But I seem to be having trouble doing that with
> Ubuntu.
>
> I've installed the 2.6.15-23-686 kernel on a particular box. Then I've
> grabbed the linux-source-2.6.15 kernel source tree.  The config file
> that's installed with the 23-686 binary tries to compile some obscure
> usb driver that won't compile, which makes me suspect it is not the
> right config file. The config file one gets by default from the kernel
> tree isn't for an smp, so I'm sure it's not the right config file.
>
> I've tried the irc channel and the forums and even a lot of googling,
> but I've clearly missed the steps I need to take in order to be able
> to reproduce the kernel from sources.  What am I missing?
>
> Thanks