Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756690AbXIEJ1w (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 05:27:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756097AbXIEJ1p (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 05:27:45 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:38702 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756031AbXIEJ1o (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 05:27:44 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 05:16:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.723, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00, TW_VN 0.08) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1814 Lines: 53 i know sam ravnborg has been Cc'ed on a janitors list posting mentioning this but, just in case this note can get a fix snuck in there quickly before 2.6.23 (this is on i386, but i'm guessing applies to all arches): $ make distclean $ make defconfig $ make menuconfig (select visor.ko to be built a module) $ make drivers/usb/serial/visor.ko scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig CHK include/linux/version.h UPD include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h UPD include/linux/utsrelease.h SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-i386 CC arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s GEN include/asm-i386/asm-offsets.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CC scripts/mod/empty.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash HOSTCC scripts/bin2c CC [M] drivers/usb/serial/visor.o /bin/sh: .tmp_versions/visor.mod: No such file or directory MODPOST 0 modules $ whoops. manually creating the directory .tmp_versions first fixes this, but i'm not conversant enough with the Makefile to want to take a shot at repairing this. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - 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/