On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Dave Hylands wrote:
> HI Shivanth,
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:20 AM, shivanth m p <fordearlinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I created a kernel module for the 2.6.33 kernel outside the kernel source
> > directory . When i give the make command it says
> > Nothing to be done for /root/mydrivers
> >
> > Here's my makefile
> >
> > obj-m +=mydiver.o
> > modules :
> > make -C ..kerndev/linux-2.6/ M=$(PWD) modules
> > clean :
> > make -C ../kerndev/linux-2.6/ M=$(PWD) clean
> >
> > my module source is in /root/mydrivers and the kernel source in
> > /root/kerndev/linux-2.6
>
> When you invoke make by default with no arguments, it assume you typed
> make all. Since your makefile has no all target, it thinks that there
> is nothing to be done.
no, it will simply use the first target it finds.
rday
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