Hello, Thanks! I needed to do the same to the wireless device drivers, and the following did it: make SUBDIRS=drivers/net/wireless/ O=../wireless-testing_obj/ Regards, Andy On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Sandeep K Sinha <sandeepksinha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Andy Johnson <johnsonzjo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When I want to build a kernel module (let's say it is drivers/net/b44.ko) >> I simply run >> "make drivers/net/b44.ko" and it was ok. >> Now I had build the kernel in a differnet tree than the source tree. >> There is kernel_obj under the parent of the kernel directory. >> I had done this by by: make O=../kernel_ob >> >> When I try to built the module in that kernel_obj tree I want to do the same, >> namely build only one specific module (and not all the tree); and I can't. >> >> To be more specific: >> If I run >> make O=../kernel_obj >> It will be OK; it will build the module. But this will take a lot of >> time, since in fact >> it tries to build all the tree and not only a specified module. >> > > Go to the root kernel tree, > and try, > > make SUBDIRS=drivers/net modules > > >> So: >> I tried: >> make O=../kernel_ob ../kernel_obj/drivers/net/b44.ko and it does **not** work. >> >> Also: >> make ../kernel_obj/drivers/net/b44.ko >> is not good for this. >> >> Any ideas ? >> > > HTH, > >> Regards, >> Andy >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with >> "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ >> >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Sandeep. > > > > > > > "To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner." > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
