This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kbuild: doc: Update default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates
to the 6.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kbuild-doc-update-default-install_mod_dir-from-extra.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 71c992176ffa74b010035befe9881ca8e6bdb0a9
Author: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 14 15:15:02 2024 +0800
kbuild: doc: Update default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates
[ Upstream commit 07d4cc2e7444356faac6552d0688a1670cc9d749 ]
The default INSTALL_MOD_DIR was changed from 'extra' to
'updates' in commit b74d7bb7ca24 ("kbuild: Modify default
INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates").
This commit updates the documentation to align with the
latest kernel.
Fixes: b74d7bb7ca24 ("kbuild: Modify default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates")
Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
index a1f3eb7a43e23..131863142cbb3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ executed to make module versioning work.
modules_install
Install the external module(s). The default location is
- /lib/modules/<kernel_release>/extra/, but a prefix may
+ /lib/modules/<kernel_release>/updates/, but a prefix may
be added with INSTALL_MOD_PATH (discussed in section 5).
clean
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ directory:
And external modules are installed in:
- /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/extra/
+ /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/updates/
5.1 INSTALL_MOD_PATH
--------------------
@@ -438,10 +438,10 @@ And external modules are installed in:
-------------------
External modules are by default installed to a directory under
- /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/extra/, but you may wish to
+ /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/updates/, but you may wish to
locate modules for a specific functionality in a separate
directory. For this purpose, use INSTALL_MOD_DIR to specify an
- alternative name to "extra."::
+ alternative name to "updates."::
$ make INSTALL_MOD_DIR=gandalf -C $KDIR \
M=$PWD modules_install
