Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:42:47 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Support for building individual .ko's would be nice :-) |
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:59:04PM +0300, 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
Use make drivers/media/dvb/frontends/
to just compile the module.
But then you need to do an: make modules
which will build all modules. Here you need to tweak the .config to only specify one module, the one you want. Sorry, no better way today.
Keep a pre-built kernel is always a good choice.
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