Re: External compilation

[Kai Germaschewski]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, John Levon wrote:

> Is there any good example code for compiling a kernel module
> externally, that works for modversions etc. on 2.2, 2.4, and 2.5,
> and does the right thing (including Rules.make) ?

Well, you need the source for the kernel you're building the module for,
it needs to be configured and "make dep" must have been run (for module 
versions).

(You normally can find it by looking into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel 
for the currently running kernel)

Put your module source in some directory, and add a Makefile like

	obj-m := my_module.o

	include $(TOPDIR)/Rules.make

cd into the kernel source and run

	make SUBDIRS=/path/to/your/module modules

--Kai