Adam Hardy wrote: > Right. Having read that and also the man page, I got the following > advice which confused my simple caffeine starved brain. What do I do if > I only want to compile a module which I forgot in xconfig? Can I avoid > the complete compile?? Yes. This is exactly the same as if you did not use the option --append-to-version. But when making additional modules use the same option with the same argument. The lever here is the clean is the "do_clean := NO" option. > Quote man: > --append_to_version foo > [snip.....] > Please note that you must run a make-kpkg clean after configuring the > kernel using make (x|menu)?config, since that creates the file > include/linux/version.h without the append_to_version data (foo). This > file won't be updated by the make-kpkg run (make-kpkg creates version.h > if it doesn't exist, but doesn't touch if exists), so the final kernel > will _not_ have the append_to_version data in its version number it > shall look for the modules and symbols in all the wrong places. The > simplest solution is either to remove include/linux/version.h after > configuring and before compiling, or running make-kpkg clean after > configuring, before compiling. Good catch. In that case I would follow the suggestion and remove the file include/linux/version.h after and before compiling just as it said. It will then be rebuilt with the version including the part appended from --append-to-version and everything should be consistent. Bob
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