Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:18:16 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Satish Eerpini <eerpini@gmail.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: building custom module on 2.6.28 fails
Message-ID: <20090125191816.GA31368@uranus.ravnborg.org>
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 07:57:37PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> 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'.
No - only mrproper and distclean should delete it.

	Sam
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