From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bskmohan@gmail.com (sri) Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 11:35:46 +0530 Subject: building a specific driver in kernel src tree In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org the config had it as CONFIG_E1000=y Does =y or =m make any difference? still not working. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 22:49, sri wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As part of learning, I have added few debug statements to the code at > > drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c (e1000_probe function). > > Now to compile this, am doing make -C > /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5PAE/build > > M=`pwd` modules under drivers/net/e1000 dir. > > > > That is not compiling anything. But the same thing when I do in > > drivers/net/e1000e, it is compiling and creating e1000e.ko file. > > > > Check your kernel config file (which is .config) to make sure that > CONFIG_E1000=m > > Then you should be able to run ` make drivers/net/e1000` to build the > e1000 driver as a module > > > Any help on how to get e1000.ko? > > > > --Sri > > _______________________________________________ > > Kernelnewbies mailing list > > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > Jeff > -- -- Krishna Mohan B -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20110509/22e91dd3/attachment.html