From: sjhill at realitydiluted.com <sjhill@realitydiluted.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Why linux26-modules before linux26
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:31:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080804133110.GA2348@real.realitydiluted.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080804130121.GB27672@mx.loc>
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:34:36PM -0700, Brian Beattie wrote:
> >I have a kernel that does not want to compile the modules before the
> >rest of the kernel. I've worked around that, but it does raise a
> >question that maybe somebody knows the answer to, why are the makefiles
> >set to compile the kernel-modules so early compared to the rest of the
> >kernel?
>
> This was added by Steven, IIRC. I don't see a reason why the modules are
> built before the kernel.
>
> Steven, can you please explain?
>
Originally when I added that, the modules were getting built and
installed after the root file system image had been created. Thus,
no modules in the final image. If someone has a better method of
doing this, please feel free to submit a patch.
-Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-04 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-02 4:34 [Buildroot] Why linux26-modules before linux26 Brian Beattie
2008-08-04 13:01 ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-08-04 13:02 ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-08-04 13:31 ` sjhill at realitydiluted.com [this message]
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