install_modules (or) modules_install? (main README in 2.6.0 stable source)

install_modules (or) modules_install? (main README in 2.6.0 stable source)

[Roger Chrisman]

Hi,

Regarding:

Top level README in kernel 2.6.0 stable source

(downloaded from kernel.org on 10-18-2003)


In the last of the following five lines, 'install_modules' seem to me to be 
incorrect:

   To configure and build the kernel use:
   cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.N
   make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig
   make O=/home/name/build/kernel
   sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel install_modules install
____________________________________^

Am I correct that
                                install_modules
should be
                                module_install
?

I tried both and the latter seems to work but the former not.

Furthermore, I find the latter in two other parts of the README:

   make a backup of your modules directory before you
   do a "make modules_install".
____________________^

and:

 - If you configured any of the parts of the kernel as `modules', you
   will have to do "make modules" followed by "make modules_install".
______________________________________________^

Others like me will stumble on this. Who could update the README to correct 
this?

No person is mentioned as author or maintainer of the README.

Who should I send this feedback to?

Thanks,

Roger :-)

Re: install_modules (or) modules_install? (main README in 2.6.0 stable source)

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

In article <200312191838.55569.rogerhc@pacbell.net> (at Fri, 19 Dec 2003 18:38:55 -0800), Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net> says:

> Am I correct that
>                                 install_modules
> should be
>                                 module_install
> ?

Of course not; it should be modules_install :-)
                                  ~

===== README 1.12 vs edited =====
--- 1.12/README	Sun Oct  5 15:50:49 2003
+++ edited/README	Sat Dec 20 13:38:43 2003
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
    cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.N
    make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig
    make O=/home/name/build/kernel
-   sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel install_modules install
+   sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel modules_install install
 
    Please note: If the 'O=output/dir' option is used then it must be
    used for all invocations of make.

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Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
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