On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:05:53AM -0700, Michael West wrote:
> I is possible to compile just a single kernel module and copy it to
> /lib/modules by hand and have it work?
>
> Sometimes with new hardware I end up trial and error compiling to
> see what will work. Just doing a `make modules modules_install`
> works, but it would be nice to have to recompile everything to get a
> single module added.
>
> How would I go about this?
>
Quoting the linux-il mailing list:
> > Is there a way, to compile a single module out of the kernel source
> > tree, without fiddling about manually with the Makefiles and such ?
> > I wanted to compile ntfs.c(as a loadable module, of course), and I'm
> > not very well versed in the Makefile structure of the entire kernel
> > tree.
>
> No, you have to configure the kernel first.
>
> After that, you can do:
> make SUBDIRS=fs/ntfs modules
>
> Much faster than waiting for the whole kernel to (re)build.
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