Bug#345918: linux-2.6: modules do not install to correct folder in /lib/modu

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:50:19AM +0000, Richard Burton wrote:
> 
> >Congratulations, you are the first to file a bug report against linux 
> >2.6.15 :)
> 
> Yay ;-)
> 
> >Could you tell us exactly what you do to build the module, and check if 
> >this
> >is not a bug in m-a or your module ?
> >The official recomended way of building modules is to build inside the 
> >module
> >tree with KSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686/build, is this the way you do it ?
> 
> Here are a couple of extracts from the tp_smapi makefile which should show 
> how it's done (I use 'make install' to drive this):
> 
> KVER := $(shell uname -r)
> KDIR := /lib/modules/$(KVER)/build
> PWD := $(shell pwd)
> MDIR   := drivers/firmware
> ...
> modules: $(patsubst %.o,%.c,$(TP_MODULES))
>        $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules
> ...
> install: modules
>        rm -f /lib/modules/$(KVER)/kernel/$(MDIR)/{tp_base,tp_smapi}.ko
>        $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules_install

We use $(MAKE) KSRC=/lib/modules/$(KVER)/build to build and install, i
believe. have you seen other modules and can you confirm they don't break or
something such ? I know there are a couple of them that work, and i thus
believe upto a point that it is a bug in this module, as well as a lack of
correct documentation on our part probably.

Friendly,

Sven Luther