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From: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com (Jeff Kirsher)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: building a specific driver in kernel src tree
Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 23:02:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=W1fXLSKSWnHiegNfawPH0zt9fCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinOm-=8LR6EQ4c9BT_oJRAoCjzLSw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 22:49, sri <bskmohan@gmail.com> 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
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-- 
Cheers,
Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-09  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-09  5:49 building a specific driver in kernel src tree sri
2011-05-09  6:02 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
2011-05-09  6:05   ` sri
2011-05-09  6:19     ` Jeff Kirsher
2011-05-09  6:20       ` sri
     [not found]     ` <BANLkTim=tbUjLVWaVvnfXxXzJOAXD2epbg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-05-09  7:23       ` sri

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