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

[Carlos Munoz]

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:
>  
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I hope this is the right forum for this question.
> >    
> Yes.
>
>  
>
> > 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.
>
>
>  
>
> > #
> > # 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
>
>  
>
> > ifeq ($(CONFIG_PHONE_PROSLIC),y)
> > phone_mrvl-objs = mrvphone.o proslic.o
> > endif
> >    
> phone_mrvl-$(CONFIG_PHONE_PROSLIC) += mrvphone.o proslic.o
>
>  
>
> > 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.
>  
>
> > 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
> >    
>
> 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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