Messages in this thread | | | From | Axel Weiss <> | Subject | Re: Support for building individual .ko's would be nice :-) | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:57:52 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 20 April 2004 20:59, Pekka Pietikainen wrote: > I was told you're the man to bug about this :-) > > Having a slow box, a vendor kernel (+ kernel-source package with config > for it) and a need to modify one line of a module, recompile it, > replace existing module with it and continue business as usual > made me notice kbuild doesn't seem to have a facility for this. > > What would be nice is (say) > > cp configs/xxx-i686.config .config > emacs drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ves1820.c > make drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ves1820.ko
Never tried before, but I would suggest to run make M=drivers/media/dvb/frontends at this place.
> cp ves1820.ko /lib/modules/... save your old module first!
> rmmod ves1820; modprobe ves1820 rmmod ves1820 lsmod # module unloaded? modprobe ves1820
> > Or am I missing something obvious that let me get just that one .ko > without recompiling just about everything? (.o is easy, but that's > not very useful :-) )
BTW: (asking the experts here) is it legal to hack a module like this??
I'd prefer to compile the whole thing (over night)!
Axel
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