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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:41:00 +0530
From: "Vamsi Krishna S ." <vamsi@in.ibm.com>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai-germaschewski@uiowa.edu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>,
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Subject: Re: [BUG] module-init-tools 0.9.3, rmmod modules with '-'
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:47:26AM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> > In message <20021217114846.A30837@in.ibm.com> you write:
> > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:17:05AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > BTW, this was done for (1) simplicity, (2) so KBUILD_MODNAME can be
> > > > used to construct identifiers, and (3) so parameters when the module
> > > > is built-in have a consistent name.
> > > > 
> > > Ok, I see it now, this magic happens in scripts/Makefile.lib. 
> > > My module has been built outside the kernel build system, that's
> > > why I saw this problem.
> > > 
> > > I guess avoiding '-' should do it, but is there a simple way to 
> > > correctly build (simple, test) modules outside the kernel tree now?
> > 
> > Has there ever been a simple way?
> 
> Well, you can do
> 
> cd my_module
> echo "obj-m := my_module.o" > Makefile
> vi my_module.c
> make -C <path/to/kernel/src> SUBDIRS=$PWD modules
> 
> That's not too bad (and basically works for 2.4 as well)
> 
That's way cool! Thank you.

-- 
Vamsi Krishna S.
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Lab, Bangalore.
Ph: +91 80 5044959
Internet: vamsi@in.ibm.com
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