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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 
> 
>>To quote from your previous mail:
>>
>>
>>>make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build scripts scripts_basic include/linux/version.h
>>
>>That doesn't really like documented interfaces to me.
> 
> Right. The documented command is "make install". However an undocumented

Really?

I always do

	make modules_install
	installkernel <kversion> arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map

The arch-independent installkernel script should perform the necessary 
actions to install the kernel image in a bootable area.


> The actual problem is that there is no standardized way to compile modules
> outside the kernel source tree. There will be serious problems if
> different distributions need slightly different installation procedure.
> Who is going to be able to tell the customer what exactly he should do?

In 2.6.x there is a way to do this :)

Sam Ravnborg recently posted documentation for this, as well.

	Jeff



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