Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266215AbUFUNJm (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:09:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266227AbUFUNHJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:07:09 -0400 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:4835 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266215AbUFUNDH (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:03:07 -0400 Message-Id: <200406190259.i5J2xAYU011589@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> To: Hannu Savolainen cc: Roman Zippel , 4Front Technologies , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness In-Reply-To: Message from Hannu Savolainen of "Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:37:53 +0300." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 14) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:59:10 -0400 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1252 Lines: 26 Hannu Savolainen said: > 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 > detail is that that doesn't work with "virgin" kernel sources (nothing > compiled yet). The above command seems to be needed to prepare the source > tree for building the module. The "documented" alternative would be full > make in the kernel source tree but that is massive overkill (in addition > it doesn't work with most distribution kernels). make modules_prepare -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/