2024-06-14 07:15:43

by Mark-PK Tsai

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Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: doc: Update default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates

The default INSTALL_MOD_DIR was changed from 'extra' to
'updates' in commit b74d7bb7ca24 ("kbuild: Modify default
INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates").

This commit updates the documentation to align with the
latest kernel.

Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
index a1f3eb7a43e2..131863142cbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ executed to make module versioning work.

modules_install
Install the external module(s). The default location is
- /lib/modules/<kernel_release>/extra/, but a prefix may
+ /lib/modules/<kernel_release>/updates/, but a prefix may
be added with INSTALL_MOD_PATH (discussed in section 5).

clean
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ directory:

And external modules are installed in:

- /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/extra/
+ /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/updates/

5.1 INSTALL_MOD_PATH
--------------------
@@ -438,10 +438,10 @@ And external modules are installed in:
-------------------

External modules are by default installed to a directory under
- /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/extra/, but you may wish to
+ /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/updates/, but you may wish to
locate modules for a specific functionality in a separate
directory. For this purpose, use INSTALL_MOD_DIR to specify an
- alternative name to "extra."::
+ alternative name to "updates."::

$ make INSTALL_MOD_DIR=gandalf -C $KDIR \
M=$PWD modules_install
--
2.18.0



2024-06-15 06:50:42

by Masahiro Yamada

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: doc: Update default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates

On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 4:15 PM Mark-PK Tsai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The default INSTALL_MOD_DIR was changed from 'extra' to
> 'updates' in commit b74d7bb7ca24 ("kbuild: Modify default
> INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates").
>
> This commit updates the documentation to align with the
> latest kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai <[email protected]>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks!




--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada