From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Support for building individual .ko's would be nice :-)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:42:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040420194247.GA6533@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040420185904.GA27037@ee.oulu.fi>
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:59:04PM +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> I was told you're the man to bug about this :-)
>
> Having a slow box, a vendor kernel (+ kernel-source package with config
> for it) and a need to modify one line of a module, recompile it,
> replace existing module with it and continue business as usual
> made me notice kbuild doesn't seem to have a facility for this.
>
> What would be nice is (say)
>
> cp configs/xxx-i686.config .config
> emacs drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ves1820.c
> make drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ves1820.ko
Use
make drivers/media/dvb/frontends/
to just compile the module.
But then you need to do an:
make modules
which will build all modules. Here you need to tweak the .config to only
specify one module, the one you want.
Sorry, no better way today.
Keep a pre-built kernel is always a good choice.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-20 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-20 18:59 Support for building individual .ko's would be nice :-) Pekka Pietikainen
2004-04-20 19:16 ` Marc Singer
2004-04-20 19:42 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2004-04-20 19:57 ` Axel Weiss
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