From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ydroneaud@opteya.com (Yann Droneaud) Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:09:37 +0200 Subject: make headers_install for out-of-tree modules In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1444230577.3188.73.camel@opteya.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Hi, Le mercredi 07 octobre 2015 ? 10:51 -0300, Daniel. a ?crit : > Uhh, as I see from docs, this isn't supported, > > --- 2.3 Targets > > When building an external module, only a subset of the "make" > targets are available. > > From https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt > > So, how can I export ioctl calls defined by an out-of-tree module? > I had the same expectation and it was a sad day when I found myself having to do it manually in the out of tree makefile, having to handle __user annotations in particular, as it wasn't possible to call scripts/headers_install.sh as scripts/unifdef.c wasn't compiled and available in the various kernel build environment provided by distribution packages. PS: please, don't top post reply, thanks. > 2015-10-07 10:46 GMT-03:00 Daniel. : > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to install headers from out-of-tree module. I've writed > > this[1] Makefile. I have Kbuild files with header-y tokens poiting > > for > > propper folders and files. When I run "make headers_install" I got > > this[2] error message, > > > > [1] http://pastebin.com/9f3kYT8k > > [2] http://pastebin.com/yfi69nUi > > > > Any idea? Regards. -- Yann Droneaud OPTEYA