Hi

I'm trying to compile a single kernel module in a clean kernel source tree and just can't seem to get it right.

After compiling the kernel (2.6.10) I cleaned the source tree with make mrproper.
Now I'm trying to add just one fs driver module (ntfs.ko), so I copy the saved .config file into the source tree and do a make menuconfig.
I select ntfs support as M and save the changes.
The path to the kernel sources is ~/projects/linux-2.6.10 and I'm working in the source root directory.

make help shows a make dir target and this is what I use.

Here's the output from the command:

SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
CC scripts/mod/empty.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o
HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost
HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms
HOSTCC scripts/pnmtologo
HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash
SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-i386
CHK include/linux/version.h
UPD include/linux/version.h
CC arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s
CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
UPD include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
LD fs/ntfs/built-in.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/aops.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/attrib.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/collate.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/compress.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/debug.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/dir.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/file.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/index.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/inode.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/mft.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/mst.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/namei.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/runlist.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/super.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/sysctl.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/unistr.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/upcase.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/bitmap.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/logfile.o
CC [M] fs/ntfs/quota.o
LD [M] fs/ntfs/ntfs.o
/bin/sh: .tmp_versions/ntfs.mod: No such file or directory

A look inside the fs/ntfs directory shows the .tmp_versions dir as well as the ntfs.mod file in it is there.
Unfortunately the kernel makefile is still indistinguishable from magic to me.

Anyone?

Henry

The actual command that I use is: make fs/ntfs. :-)

Henry

Maybe this:

Hi nx5000

Thanks for the answer.

The SUBDIRS variable is for backwards compatibility with the 2.4 kernel according to comments in the makefile.
I tried make modules SUBDIRS=fs/ntfs though but get a lot of errors because of include files etc not available.

As can be seen from the output of make fs/ntfs, it takes care of building and satisfying dependancies where make modules SUBDIRS=fs/ntfs does not.

I think the .tmp_versions directory and ntfs.mod file are generated by the build process as it's not in the source tree when you extract it from the archive but it doesn't get cleaned by make mrproper or make distclean.

Thanks again for the reply
Henry