Thanks. 'make allmodconfig' works. But before your answer, I am able to build and there is a .config file. But why 'make C=2 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/' decide to build config again ? On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Michael. > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:49:48AM -0700, m silverstri wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I read http://kernelnewbies.org/Sparse and try to run sparse tool. >> >> As a test, I run it on raspberry-pi/linux code base, by doing " make >> C=2 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/", what I get is it asks me a list of >> configuration question and it does not run sparse for me. How can I >> bypass this setting up configuration and run sparse for the code? > > You cannot build the kernel source before the kernel is properly configured. > You can use one of the shortcuts if you just want to build test this: > > make allyesconfig > > or > > make allmodconfig > > This will configure your kernel and allow you to build the wlan-ng/ > drivers. > And when you can build the drivers then you can also run sparse. > > Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
