From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert P. J. Day Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:02:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Buildroot] Why linux26-modules before linux26 In-Reply-To: <20080804130121.GB27672@mx.loc> References: <1217651676.6280.11.camel@kokopelli> <20080804130121.GB27672@mx.loc> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Bernhard Fischer wrote: > 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? why should it make a difference? shouldn't kernel modules be buildable independently from the kernel proper? AFAIK, all that's required of the kernel tree is to do the equivalent of "make modules_prepare", no? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ========================================================================