From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot and kernel modules
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:03:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141112220301.59a53a17@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJpxd06J7Jo8XnMPZpGN_A9pQ19aDKabzBOeDShn6zaheoTi2A@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Bryce Schober,
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:26:00 -0800, Bryce Schober wrote:
> I reluctantly hijack this thread to ask a very closely related question: Is
> there a way to build an out-of-tree module like this using the
> buildroot-compiled linux headers, instead of the possibly-older
> toolchain-provided linux headers?
A kernel module is never built using the linux headers provided by the
toolchain. The linux headers provided by the toolchain only contain the
userspace part of the kernel headers, and they are therefore
insufficient to build kernel modules (which as their name suggest,
contain kernel code).
Therefore, when you do something like:
> > > define KERNELMODULE_BUILD_CMDS
> > > $(MAKE) $(LINUX_MAKE_FLAGS) -C $(LINUX_DIR) M=$(@D) modules
> > > endef
It uses the kernel code in $(LINUX_DIR), and mainly the kernel headers
+ kernel configuration, to build your kernel modules.
Best regards,
Thomas Petazzoni
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-12 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-12 5:04 [Buildroot] Buildroot and kernel modules Sid Bharij
2014-11-12 10:03 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-12 12:21 ` Paassen, Hiram van
2014-11-12 12:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-12 18:25 ` Sid Bharij
2014-11-12 21:27 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-12 22:19 ` Sid Bharij
2014-11-12 22:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-12 19:26 ` Bryce Schober
2014-11-12 21:03 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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2013-06-19 15:26 [Buildroot] buildroot " jerryalex at tx.rr.com
2013-06-19 15:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
[not found] ` <20130619155518.8G4TE.59637.root@cdptpa-web08-z02>
2013-06-20 7:39 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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