Re: Support for building individual .ko's would be nice :-)

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:59:04PM +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> I was told you're the man to bug about this :-)
> 
> Having a slow box, a vendor kernel (+ kernel-source package with config
> for it) and a need to modify one line of a module, recompile it,
> replace existing module with it and continue business as usual
> made me notice kbuild doesn't seem to have a facility for this.
> 
> What would be nice is (say)
> 
> cp configs/xxx-i686.config .config
> emacs drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ves1820.c
> make drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ves1820.ko

Use
make drivers/media/dvb/frontends/

to just compile the module.

But then you need to do an:
make modules

which will build all modules. Here you need to tweak the .config to only
specify one module, the one you want.
Sorry, no better way today.

Keep a pre-built kernel is always a good choice.

	Sam