On Mon, 14 May 2007, Rajat Jain wrote: > Hi, > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/lkn/lkn_pdf/ch04.pdf > > > > and read the page numbered "27", the section entitled "Building Only a > > Portion of the Kernel," can someone provide the commands to do those > > things that actually work? at this point, i'm convinced that those > > commands just don't function as advertised. thanks. > > > > Are you sure you are not missing any thing? It is working like a charm > at my end. I'm trying this: > > make ARCH=mips CROSS_COMPILE=mips_4KC- drivers/serial/ > > And voila! first of all, note that you're using a trailing slash in the directory name, while the example in the book doesn't. that was my first issue -- i think that slash is *required*. so, technically, what you're doing is "working like a charm" only because you're not actually reproducing what's in the book. and, second, the command in the book to build a single module just flat-out doesn't work. if someone can suggest how to compile a single module out of the source tree, i'd like to see how that works. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
