Re: [PATCH 5/5] kbuild: external module build doc

[Horst von Brand]

Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> # This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch.
> #
> # ChangeSet
> #   2004/06/14 22:21:46+02:00 sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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> --- /dev/null	Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/extmodules.txt	2004-06-14 22:25:21 +02:00
> @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
> +Building external modules
> +=========================
> +kbuild offers functionality to build external modules, with the
> +prerequisite that there is a pre-built kernel avialable with full source.

No. It should be enough to have run "make modules_prepare".

> +A subset of the targets available when building the kernel is available
> +when building an external module.
> +
> +
> +Building the module
> +-------------------
> +The command looks like his:
> +
> +	make -C <path to kernel src> M=`pwd`

For me, it works with:

  make -C <path to kernel src> SUBDIRS=<path to module source> modules
     # Builds
  make -C <path to kernel src> SUBDIRS=<path to module source> modules_install
     # Installs

Besides, IMHO this belongs in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt.
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