From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: misleading kernel config error msg when building module against kernel
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:25:42 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1006181722580.4021@lynx> (raw)
when one tries to build a simple module against a "make distclean"ed
source tree, one gets:
ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.
Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.
that diagnostic seems inaccurate in two ways.
first, "make oldconfig" is unnecessarily specific -- it should
really just say, "you must configure your kernel source first."
and second, "make prepare" should really say "make modules_prepare",
should it not?
anyone mind if i submit a patch?
rday
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