Re: Can't build loadable module for 2.6.kernel

[Carlos Munoz <carlos@kenati.com>]

Hi Sam,

Thanks to your help and the kbuild documentation you referred me to I 
was able to build the module.

Thanks again,


Carlos Munoz

Sam Ravnborg wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:52:24AM -0800, Carlos Munoz wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>I hope this is the right forum for this question.
>>    
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>Yes.
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>>The makefile has the following rule to build apicnt.o:
>>apicnt.o: apicnt.o.shipped
>>   cp apicnt.o.shipped apicnt.o
>>    
>>
>
>This is wrong. kbuild has knowledge how to copy a file named:
>apicnt.o_shippd to apicnt.o
>So you renamed the supplied .o fiel to apicnt.o_shipped and delte your
>own rule.
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>>#
>># Makefile for the phone_mrvl driver loadable module
>>#
>>TARGET = phone_mrvl.o
>>
>>obj-$(CONFIG_PHONE_MARVELL) = phone_mrvl.o
>>
>>ifeq ($(CONFIG_PHONE_LEGERITY),y)
>>phone_mrvl-objs = mrvphone.o slic.o legerity.o vp_hal.o sys_service.o apicnt.o apiinit.o apiquery.o vp_api.o vp_api_common.o mvutils.o
>>endif
>>    
>>
>Please do:
>phone_mrvl-$(CONFIG_PHONE_LEGERITY) := mrvphone.o slic.o legerity.o 
>phone_mrvl-$(CONFIG_PHONE_LEGERITY) += vp_hal.o sys_service.o apicnt.o 
>phone_mrvl-$(CONFIG_PHONE_LEGERITY) += apiinit.o apiquery.o vp_api.o
>phone_mrvl-$(CONFIG_PHONE_LEGERITY) += vp_api_common.o mvutils.o
>
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>>ifeq ($(CONFIG_PHONE_PROSLIC),y)
>>phone_mrvl-objs = mrvphone.o proslic.o
>>endif
>>    
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>phone_mrvl-$(CONFIG_PHONE_PROSLIC) += mrvphone.o proslic.o
>
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>>CFLAGS += -D__linux__
>>EXTRA_CFLAGS += -Idrivers/telephony/mrvphone
>>EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DNDEBUG -Dlinux -D__linux__ -Dunix -DEMBED -DLINUX -DHOST_LE
>>
>>ifeq ($(CONFIG_PHONE_LEGERITY),y)
>>EXTRA_CFLAGS += -D__LEGERITY__
>>endif
>>ifeq ($(CONFIG_PHONE_PROSLIC),y)
>>EXTRA_CFLAGS += -D__PROSLIC__
>>endif
>>    
>>
>Here you could do:
>extra-cflags-$(CONFIG_PHONE_LEGERITY) += -D__LEGERITY__
>extra-cflags-$(CONFIG_PHONE_PROSLIC)  += -D__PROSLIC__
>EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(extra-cflags-y)
>
>Please delete the rest - it is not needed.
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>>all: $(TARGET)
>>
>>$(TARGET): $(OBJS)
>>	$(LD) -r $(OBJS) -o $(TARGET)
>>
>>clean:
>>	-rm -f $(TARGET) *.elf *.gdb *.o
>>
>>apicnt.o: apicnt.o.shipped
>>	cp apicnt.o.shipped apicnt.o
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>
>When you build your module use:
>make -C $PATH_TO_COMPILED_KERNEL M=`pwd`
>
>See also Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt for further reference.
>
>	Sam
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