building a specific driver in kernel src tree

[sri]

the config had it as CONFIG_E1000=y
Does =y or =m make any difference?

still not working.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jeff Kirsher
<jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>wrote:

> 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
>



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