On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:11:57PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i swear, this just never seems to work for me. according to greg > > kh's book "linux kernel in a nutshell", the way to build a single > > module is simply (for example): > > > > $ make drivers/usb/serial/visor.ko > > > > for the life of me, i can't get that to work. it *will* build a > > file visor.o, but that's not what i'm after, i want the final visor.ko > > module file. > > > > am i doing something exceedingly silly? thanks. > > It should work. > > What's the complete output you get? with the latest git tree, i do: $ make distclean $ make defconfig $ make drivers/usb/serial/visor.ko scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig CHK include/linux/version.h UPD include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h UPD include/linux/utsrelease.h SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-i386 CC arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s GEN include/asm-i386/asm-offsets.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CC scripts/mod/empty.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash HOSTCC scripts/bin2c CC drivers/usb/serial/visor.o MODPOST 0 modules $ and the result? $ find . -name *.o ./scripts/kconfig/conf.o ./scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o ./scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o ./scripts/mod/file2alias.o ./scripts/mod/empty.o ./scripts/mod/modpost.o ./scripts/mod/sumversion.o ./drivers/usb/serial/visor.o [rpjday@localhost git]$ find . -name *.ko [rpjday@localhost git]$ ok, so where's my visor.ko module file? the book certainly suggests i should have one at this point. ah, but the i386 defconfig doesn't select the handspring module, so i'll do a clean, go back into menuconfig, select visor as a module and try again: $ make drivers/usb/serial/visor.ko HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CC arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s GEN include/asm-i386/asm-offsets.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CC scripts/mod/empty.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash HOSTCC scripts/bin2c CC [M] drivers/usb/serial/visor.o /bin/sh: .tmp_versions/visor.mod: No such file or directory MODPOST 0 modules $ ok, so what's the trick here? are you actually getting a .ko file? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
