Re: compiling only one module in kernel version 2.6?

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 19:42 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:54:50AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 01:48 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:41 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Sam only added make .ko build support very recently,
> > > > so it could easily depend on what kernel verison Fong is using.
> > > 
> > > That could very well explain it. I'm doing this on 2.6.13-rc6-rt6
> > > (2.6.13-rc6 with Ingo's rt6 patch applied).  So I really do have a
> > > recent kernel.
> > > 
> > 
> > I just did this on a 2.6.9 vanilla kernel, and it still worked.
> 
> Hi Steve.
> 
> make fs/reiserfs/
> and
> make fs/reiserfs/resiserfs.ko
> 
> does not do the same thing. Only the latter result in a .ko file.

I never said I did a "make fs/reiserfs". I did a 
"make SUBDIRS=fs/reiserfs"  which does produce a .ko file.  

But even shorter is to do a "make M=fs/reiserfs", which also works.

But, I guess what was added was the ability to just type the module
itself.  That's cool, but I haven't had the need to do that (yet).

-- Steve