Re: compile one kernel module

[shaulka@bezeqint.net]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:05:53AM -0700, Michael West wrote:
>      I is possible to compile just a single kernel module and copy it to
>      /lib/modules by hand and have it work?
> 
>      Sometimes with new hardware I end up trial and error compiling to
>      see what will work.  Just doing a `make modules modules_install`
>      works, but it would be nice to have to recompile everything to get a 
>      single module added.
> 
>      How would I go about this?
> 


Quoting the linux-il mailing list:

> > Is there a way, to compile a single module out of the kernel source
> > tree, without fiddling about manually with the Makefiles and such ?
> > I wanted to compile ntfs.c(as a loadable module, of course), and I'm
> > not very well versed in the Makefile structure of the entire kernel
> > tree.
>
> No, you have to configure the kernel first.
>
> After that, you can do:
> make SUBDIRS=fs/ntfs modules
>
> Much faster than waiting for the whole kernel to (re)build.

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    Shaul Karl, shaulka@bezeqint.n e t