From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com (Jeff Kirsher) Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 23:02:15 -0700 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 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