Kernel Patch

Sam Ravnborg sam at ravnborg.org
Tue Apr 24 18:06:23 UTC 2007


On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:39:01PM +0300, OOzy Pal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This to tough for me but anyhow, I am trying to patch my wireless card
> driver and follows the isntrucations which as
> 
> $make patch_kernel
> 
> I then got this error. What does it mean?
> 
> WARNING: $SHELL not set to bash.

Most likely that you have your /bin/sh symlinked to somethign different than bash.
There is something in the kernel build process that has started to require
bash (unfortunately) and this is being tested for.

> 
> If you experience build errors, try 'make SHELL=/bin/bash'.

Did it work when following this advice?

	Sam




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