From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265224AbUGGQJP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:09:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265222AbUGGQJO (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:09:14 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:8321 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265219AbUGGQJJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:09:09 -0400 Message-ID: <40EC201C.2060906@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:09:00 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Tilley CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Directory where modules are loacted in 2.6.7 build References: <922iggP8L3328S17.1089215951@uwdvg017.cms.usa.net> In-Reply-To: <922iggP8L3328S17.1089215951@uwdvg017.cms.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Brad Tilley wrote: > This is probably a stupid question, but here goes: > > When a normal user on a x86 PC builds a 2.6.x kernel in his home > directory by > issuing the 'make' command where are the modules placed? They're left where they are compiled. To actually put them anywhere, you must do "make modules_install" as root. Chris