Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Why was the "make dep" option removed in the 2.6 kernels? With 2.4, I > could just do "make oldconfig dep" in a new kernel tree, and I could > compile my modules externally. Now in 2.6 I need to build the entire > kernel before I can compile my modules. Is there an alternative? Yes. A "make oldconfig" is usually enough. I noticed that you are using Suse 9.1 Pro. When I was using that I followed the instructions here: http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/faq/compile.html I was still getting some permission denied errors when building a module as a non-root user in an external directory, so in addition, I also did "make" as root and hit control-C after it got to main.c. By that time, the pre-build setup stuff has been taken care of. If there's a better way to do it, I'd like to know. I say good riddance to "make dep", by the way. The current scheme handles dependencies better than the old way. -- Ed L Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
