This may be slightly off topic, but I wasn't sure where else to post... I want to use/modify a driver that my distribution has not built a module for. I'm using FC6 which doesn't install the src as standard so I: 1) Download the matching kernel SRPM from http://download.fedora.redhat.com 2) $ rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.src.rpm 3) $ rpmbuild -bp --target=$(uname -m) /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec This puts the source in: /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/kernel-2.6.18.i686 OK, so I copy the original .config in using: 4) $ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/ kernel-2.6.18.i686 5) $ cp /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build/.config . 6) $ make gconfig 7) Find the driver I want and turn on its compile option to 'M'odule. Now I try to build the module: 8) $ make modules Naively I though that this would just compile the one module I wanted ! It actually seems to compile all modules (slow machine & still chugging away). QUESTIONS: (A) Could I have done this differently so that only the module I wanted got built? (B) As part of some tests I'm doing I want to modify this one module and recompile. What should I do to make sure ONLY the module I changed gets recompiled ? Will it just happen automagically ? Thanks dom -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
