building a specific driver in kernel src tree

[Jeff Kirsher]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 22:49, sri <bskmohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As part of learning, I have added few debug statements to the code at
> drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c (e1000_probe function).
> Now to compile this, am doing make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5PAE/build
> M=`pwd` modules under drivers/net/e1000 dir.
>
> That is not compiling anything. But the same thing when I do in
> drivers/net/e1000e, it is compiling and creating e1000e.ko file.
>

Check your kernel config file (which is .config) to make sure that
CONFIG_E1000=m

Then you should be able to run ` make drivers/net/e1000` to build the
e1000 driver as a module

> Any help on how to get e1000.ko?
>
> --Sri
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Cheers,
Jeff