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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Kiran Raparthy <kumarsharma.r@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] kbuild: make it possible to specify the module output dir
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:05:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E4AA4C.4050509@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1423479528-27027-1-git-send-email-kumarsharma.r@gmail.com>

On 2015-02-09 11:58, Kiran Raparthy wrote:
> From: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com>
> 
> kbuild: make it possible to specify the module output dir
> 
> Make modinst_dir user-defined on the command line.
> 
> This allows to do things like:
> make MODLIB=output/ modinst_dir=. modules_install
> 
> to ensure all the .ko are in the output/ directory.

Please explain the use case and why it is needed. There are two
user-changeable variables used by modules_install:

INSTALL_MOD_PATH - prepended to /lib/modules/..., to allow installation
                   to a staging directory by non-root
INSTALL_MOD_DIR  - for out-of-tree modules; specifies the subdirectory
                   of /lib/modules/.../ to put the modules under
                   (default: "extra").

The hierarchy used in the source tree is reflected under
/lib/modules/.../extra, but that should not be an issue.

Michal

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-18 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-09 10:58 [RFC] kbuild: make it possible to specify the module output dir Kiran Raparthy
2015-02-16  4:36 ` Kiran Kumar
2015-02-18 15:05 ` Michal Marek [this message]

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