On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Shiyao Ma <i@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > > Looking at that Makefile: > > # Use make M=dir to specify directory of external module to build > # Old syntax make ... SUBDIRS=$PWD is still supported > # Setting the environment variable KBUILD_EXTMOD take precedence > ifdef SUBDIRS > KBUILD_EXTMOD ?= $(SUBDIRS) > endif > > ifeq ("$(origin M)", "command line") > KBUILD_EXTMOD := $(M) > endif > > > So specifying KBUILD_EXTMOD or M is the same thing, which tells KBUILD the > directory that the Makefile for the module is in. > And by default, KBUILD will build the module in KBUILD_EXTMOD. > > What I want is tell KBUILD to build the modules in a specified directory. > > > > Regards. > > > > > > On Jan 2, 2017, 20:30 +0800, Alexander Kapshuk > <alexander.kapshuk@xxxxxxxxx>, wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Shiyao Ma <i@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > When building an external module, for example, given this command, > all: > $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$$PWD > > It will build the ko file in the $PWD. > > How to specify a location for the .ko files? > > > Regards. > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > Perhaps KBUILD_EXTMOD is what you're looking for. > > /path/to/kernel/sources/Makefile:183,185 > # Use make M=dir to specify directory of external module to build > # Old syntax make ... SUBDIRS=$PWD is still supported > # Setting the environment variable KBUILD_EXTMOD take precedence I haven't verified this, but perhaps KBUILD_OUTPUT would better server your purposes. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt?id=refs/tags/v4.10-rc2 KBUILD_OUTPUT -------------------------------------------------- Specify the output directory when building the kernel. The output directory can also be specified using "O=...". Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies