Subject: Re: building custom module on 2.6.28 fails
From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Satish Eerpini <eerpini@gmail.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:57:37 +0530
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On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 14:47 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:49:16PM +0530, Satish Eerpini wrote:
> > >> It seems you run "make clean" or "make distclean" in your kernel sources
> > >>
> > >> run "make prepare" in your kernel sources then you will not get this
> > >> error.
> > >
> > 
> > I ran make clean and then make prepare but it gives an error saying
> > "no such file or directory : modpost ", ....
> > Then i ran make( in the kernel source tree) , and terminated it after
> > a few files were compiled and then again tried to compile my module,
> > this time it worked without any errors, ....... any particular reason
> > for this ??
> We are currently lacking a dependency on "scripts" so doing:
> make scripts
> make prepare
> is needed today.

As per makefile:
# make clean     Delete most generated files
#                Leave enough to build external modules

So is this OK to delete include/linux/bounds.h by 'make clean'.

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JSR

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