I see. We unfortunately have 3 places that modules could be. Very old versions of sensors put modules in misc. Newer versions install in kernel/drivers/[i2c,sensors] (and remove old versions in misc). This is also where things go in a mkpatched kernel. In the kernel patches generated by Albert Cranford, modules go into kernel/drivers/i2c/[busses,chips]. I guess the Suse kernel you have is based on Albert's patches. I agree we should decide where things go, be consistent, and remove older versions in other places. Any comments, folks, on which directories should be used? Ed Harrison wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 08:48, Mark Studebaker wrote: > >>what docs are wrong? > > > Bad choice of terminology. I meant the comments in Makefile: > > # Determine whether we need to compile the kernel modules, or only the > # user-space utilities. By default, the kernel modules are compiled. > #COMPILE_KERNEL := 0 > COMPILE_KERNEL := 1 > > I assumed that this choice would put them where the kernel would--busses > in /lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/i2c/busses. Make install puts > them one level higher, in drivers/i2c. Chips .o files are put in > i2c/chips by kernel; in drivers/sensors by make install. > > > > >>I couldn't find any. >>doc/modules in particular looks correct to me. >>Don't know why you would have to move them for depmod to work. >>I assume "../../" below means "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/" ? > > > If I don't move them, then modprobe prefers the ones where the kernel's > make modules_install puts them. depmod -ae is not the problem, but I > have 2 of each and modprobe prefers and loads the wrong ones. This is a > SuSE kernel and they make everything into modules, I guess for > compatibility across as many systems as possible. > > By moving the 2.7.0 modules to the preferred locations, they get loaded > with modprobe. > > > >>Ed Harrison wrote: >> >>>Apart from the problem I am having with the as99127f, make install isn't putting the drivers where the docs say they go. >>> >>>buss drivers end up in ../../kernel/drivers/i2c (which I then have to mv to ../i2c/busses, and >>>chip drivers end up in ../../kernel/drivers/sensors (which I mv to ../i2c/chips, thenm do a depmod -ae. >>> >>>I may not be compiling correctly. The inline comments in Makefile confuse me as to whether I want the kernel modules or not.
