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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: make install and RTE_KERNELDIR in dpdk 2.2
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:26:13 +0100
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2015-12-16 15:14, Piotr Bartosiewicz:
> A new 'make install' wrongly assumes that the output module name is 
> always 'uname -r' even if RTE_KERNELDIR is passed.

No it does not assume anything, it is just a default value.
How can you find the directory based on RTE_KERNELDIR?

You can set kerneldir=something-else on the "make install" command line.