Re: Kernel Makefile Change for multiple machines and modules

Robert Bihlmeyer (robbe@orcus.priv.at)
13 Dec 1997 16:04:02 +0100


Hi,

>>>>> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:21:12 +0200
>>>>> "Marc A. Volovic" <marc@bard.org.il> said:

Marc> As soon as modules muddle the issue, one encounters a problem
Marc> of installing them, as compiled, on a single machine, becomes
Marc> annoying: one must manually jiggle the /lib/modules/something
Marc> hierarchy.

A small trick is to use

make SUBLEVEL=72a modules_install

which will gladly install to /lib/modules/2.1.72a (adapt to
current sublevel, of course).

Not that a better solution would not be nice...

BTW, your patch was reversed.

Robbe

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