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| author | Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> | 2006-01-25 07:13:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> | 2006-02-19 09:51:17 +0100 |
| commit | 06300b21f4c79fd1578f4b7ca4b314fbab61a383 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b9506e34286f0333ed747c47ec03fd5559f5b71 /Documentation/kbuild | |
| parent | Linux v2.6.16-rc4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-06300b21f4c79fd1578f4b7ca4b314fbab61a383.tar.xz linux-06300b21f4c79fd1578f4b7ca4b314fbab61a383.zip | |
kbuild: support building individual files for external modules
Support building individual files when dealing with separate modules.
So say you have a module named "foo" which consist of two .o files bar.o
and fun.o.
You can then do:
make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` bar.o
make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` bar.lst
make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` bar.i
make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` / <= will build all .o files
and link foo.o
make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` foo.ko <= will build the module
and do the modpost step
to create foo.ko
The above will also work if the external module is placed in a
subdirectory using a hirachy of kbuild files.
Thanks to Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> for initial feature
request / bug report.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt index 7e77f93634ea..87d858df4e34 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ In this document you will find information about: --- 2.2 Available targets --- 2.3 Available options --- 2.4 Preparing the kernel tree for module build + --- 2.5 Building separate files for a module === 3. Example commands === 4. Creating a kbuild file for an external module === 5. Include files @@ -131,6 +132,16 @@ when building an external module. Therefore a full kernel build needs to be executed to make module versioning work. +--- 2.5 Building separate files for a module + It is possible to build single files which is part of a module. + This works equal for the kernel, a module and even for external + modules. + Examples (module foo.ko, consist of bar.o, baz.o): + make -C $KDIR M=`pwd` bar.lst + make -C $KDIR M=`pwd` bar.o + make -C $KDIR M=`pwd` foo.ko + make -C $KDIR M=`pwd` / + === 3. Example commands |